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Message # 34287.5.1

Subject: Password trick for suspect sites

Date: Mon 18/02/08 17:47:15 GMT

Name: Waterboy

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If you are not sure if the link you clicked on it is a scam or not- do not ever enter your real information on the first attempt. If it is a scam, then any login name and password will be accepted. All they are trying to do is collect your login information. If you give them a junk login and password and it does not reject it then you know you are being scammed! Some scam sites look as good as the real one and their login screen might look authentic, but if it takes any login then it is not the real one. Always use a phony login if not sure.

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Re: OT - Possible PayPal scam

By Anonymous - Mon 18/02/08 17:21:26 GMT

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I got same one

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OT - Possible PayPal scam

By waterspaniel - Mon 18/02/08 08:21:52 GMT

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I received an e-mail, supposedly from PayPal, that they suspected an unauthorized transaction on my account and were temporarily limiting my access to certain personal information. I was instructed to click on the enclosed "Resolution Center" link to confirm my personal information. When I clicked on the link, my Macafee site advisor suddenly popped up and identified it as a "phishing" expedition to get my personal information. So I opened up a new window, went to the PayPal site, and lo and behold - no indication whatever of any restrictions on my account access. There are a couple of suspicious things about the e-mail: misspelled words and the subject line, which was just "PayPal". PayPal identifies the actual subject of the e-mail, such as "Account Transaction", etc. The "phishers" really tried to make it look official by putting a copyright notice at the bottom of the e-mail. Whoever heard of copyrighting an e-mail? Beware of this if you use PayPal.

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