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I'm recently under a barrage of scam emails from Paypal impersonators, looking to fish for info from unsuspecting, unknowing, account holders.

The emails come from seemingly legit email addresses... "service@paypal.com" and "confirm@paypal.com" to name a couple. They look like the real deal, including logos, legal jargon, etc. However, THEY ARE A SCAM, and are an attempt to steal your identity!!

The bottoms of the emails contain links to sites asking to confirm account info etc - PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINKS! Your best bet is to call Paypal if anything looks suspicious... do not do anything online with them.

Customer Service Center
PayPal Customer Service Agents are available to help you during the following times:
4:00 AM PDT to 10:00 PM PDT Monday through Friday
6:00 AM PDT to 8:00 PM PDT on Saturday and Sunday

Call us at: 1-402-935-2050 (a U.S. telephone number)

They will tell you to forward suspected emails to spoof@paypal.com

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My 2 recent emails:

Dear PayPal Member,

This email confirms that you have paid LWPELECTRONICS (sales@lwpelectronics.com) $474.99 USD using PayPal.

This credit card transaction will appear on your bill as "PAYPAL LWPELECTRONICS*".

PayPal Shopping Cart Contents
Item Name: BRAND NEW NOKIA 8800 CELL PHONE
Quantity: 1
Total: $474.99 USD

Cart Subtotal: $454.99 USD
Shipping Charge: $20.00 USD
Cart Total: $474.99 USD

Shipping Information

Shipping Info:
Bill Chang
202 N Magnolia Dr.
Saco, ME 04072
United States
Address Status: Unconfirmed

If you haven't authorized this charge, click the link below to cancel the payment and get a full refund.

Dispute Transaction

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the footer of any page.

PayPal Email ID PP120

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Dear PayPal Member,
For the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us.

Our terms and conditions you agreed to state that your service must always be under your control or those you designate all times. We have noticed some unusual activity related to your service that indicates that other parties may have access and or control of your informations in your service.

We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your CPayPal Account, service from a foreign IP adress. If you recently accessed your service while traveling, the unusual log in attempts may have been initiated by you.However, if you did not initiate the logins, please Confirm your account as soon as possible to restore your account status.
The log in attempt was made from: ISP host : c-64-154-34-134.hsfgd1.il.comcast.net

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire system. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.

To Confirm your account click one of the links below, each link is for specified locations. If you don't know your location and get page error, try other location.

Bottom line: BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!

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Forward it to paypal---they want to see these emails.

The easiest way right now to sort out the real vs the spoofs is that the real ones will call you by your EBAY or Paypal screen name rather than Dear EBAY (or PAypal) member.

springparrot wrote:Forward it to paypal---they want to see these emails.

Already did! Yes, this is an important step in eliminating them!

Jeez, how am I supposed to make a living?

rednekkPH wrote:Jeez, how am I supposed to make a living?

Find another scam?

Put a bunch of tickets for the Jimmy Buffett show in Boise on eBay

ejr wrote:The easiest way right now to sort out the real vs the spoofs is that the real ones will call you by your EBAY or Paypal screen name rather than Dear EBAY (or PAypal) member.

Excatly, that way it is always better to have a screen name different from your email. In other words if your email is say jimmybuffett@buffett.com" do not use "jimmybuffett" as your username.

These are easy to spot if you look at the the url when you srcroll over it. The link will read paypal.com, but the url it goes to is a different site.

prrthd1987 wrote:

rednekkPH wrote:Jeez, how am I supposed to make a living?

Find another scam?

Put a bunch of tickets for the Jimmy Buffett show in Boise on eBay

Here's what I received (I forwarded it on to PayPal):

Your account has been flagged!
PayPal Security Measures.

Dear PayPal Member,

Your account has been randomly flagged in our system as a part of our routine security measures. This is a must to ensure that only you have access and use of your Paypal account and to ensure a safe PayPal experience. We require all flagged accounts to verify their information on file with us. To verify your information at this time, please visit our secure server webform by clicking the hyperlink below:

Click here to update your Information

If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to temporarily suspend your account.
Thank you for your patience as we work together to protect your account.

Now...how slimy is that??!!

I have also received a number of Paypal spoofs in the last week and the address they came from is Costomerservices@paypal.com rather than customer. As someone who knows a number of costumers---