Paypal Scam?

[Ann]

Just received this - which I'm highly suspicious of so am sending it off to the Paypal spoof dept. It wasn't addressed to me personally e.g Dear Mrs Ann as it should be. A clever scam methinks. So be aware folks!

This is what the email says - it seems to be from Paypal Australia as it has a .au in the address.

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[penelope2]

I had a similar one a few weeks back. Its a scam, mine went straight in the Trash bin.

[Ann]

Yes - thanks, just wanted everyone to be aware, as it looks so authentic.

[ivor4781]

bin it ann

[Ann]

Already done that Ivor and forwarded the email to the Paypal spoof centre at
[email protected]

[TWR]

Ann, I put a post in last week regards EBay>>Pay Pal, Someone used my account to pay for a Sovereign £108 ++ I contacted P.P. after a couple of days the money was returned to my account & the fraud Dept are now looking into it, so beware.

[netibiza]

Hahaha I get these all the time and I have never ever used paypal, same with HSBC bank. But I will give my bank details to the Africans cos apparently I am a princess to them ;-)

[factor-fiction]

Just look at the headers and you'll see it's come from an account that seems nothing to do with paypal or has a similar looking but not correct name - I get lots from payal.co.uk
If it says Dear Customer and doesn't name you then it's also a scam

[magpie]

the only bona fide e-mails from paypal are 1 if you have changed your password, 2 if you have made a purchase. i have recieved dozens saying either that they have limited my account or suspended it then this weekend one saying that i had a purchase worth £314 pending and asked me to say if it was genuine. all of these were phishing excercises. don't fall for it!!!!

[rsvp]

It amazes me how any scammer can think that by giving anyone a mere 48 hours to reply is going to work - I may be on holiday, in hospital, have a power failure or just not logging on to the internet - imo anything that indicates if you don't act quickl' your world will crash' is a scam.