Paypal spamming now ?

[Thenasty]

I just revice an E-mail from paypal but I don't have an account with them.

DEAR thenasty@hotmail.com
It has come to our attention that your PayPal Billing Information records are out of date. That requires you to update the Billing Information.
Failure to update your records will result in account termination. Please update your records in maximum 24 hours. Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems.
Please click here to update your billing records.



When I click the link mentioned, it brings me the registration/sign up page.

[Buddabing]

I just revice an E-mail from paypal but I don't have an account with them.

DEAR thenasty@hotmail.com
It has come to our attention that your PayPal Billing Information records are out of date. That requires you to update the Billing Information.
Failure to update your records will result in account termination. Please update your records in maximum 24 hours. Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems.
Please click here to update your billing records.



When I click the link mentioned, it brings me the registration/sign up page.

It's an identity theft scam (phishing)

[Jabba]

No, I don't think that is SPAM, I think it is probably theft!
I've heard that some company is sending these out to get Credit Card infomration out of you so they can SCAM you.

[Luxury]

I get those all the time.

[dirt]

forward the email to spoof@ebay.com and they will tell you that it is a scam.


dirt

[Ken Layton]

Forward that message to spoof@paypal.com

[missioncontrol]

it's a scam I get at least 3 a month..........

[Sephroth57]

yeah i got one of these a little while ago, my internet spidey senses were tingling though. i deleted it

[JackTucky]

TheNasty:

You have 1100+ posts to this messageboard and you've never seen this kind of thing before?  I'm not trying to put you down, I'm shocked that there are people who use their computers alot that haven't received one of these before, or at least have heard about them.

Have you seen the nigerian one?  Where they offer to wire you $10 million dollars so you can send them $9 million back?

I get ones like this from Wells Fargo, Wachovia, etc., I don't have accounts there.

Definitely never click a link in an email lilke this, ever.  I got one from American Express that offered to upgrade my card, and I didn't click, I called.

Art

[Thenasty]

TheNasty:

You have 1100+ posts to this messageboard and you've never seen this kind of thing before?

[lucindrea]

a well managed mail server will filter these , they say they are from paypal.com or ebay.com , but the mail server is NOT from them .. if the mail server is allowing messages with a from address that does not match the ip# of the server then you really need to get this to your server admin ( or isp ) , this is a major major security hole in the mail server ( this includeds anyone getting these ) ...

note: some spam slips through because if you look closely at the header of the e-mail , the from is  embay.com or paypel.com etc.

my mail server flat out disconnects when somthing like this happens , yes a few friends have problems e-mailing me because their isp's dont properly format their mail , but compaired to the 100's of e-mails a day the server doesnt even give an acknowlage to ( they all spam ) i can live with it.

[Thenasty]

This is that one good reason why I have 2 e-mails. Thenasy_at_hotmail is just for anything and will accept anything they throw at it, but my regular e-mail is filtered to my arse that even the the president can't e-mail me