I just got an email from someone claiming to be Paypal - so please watch out. Don't trust anything if you KNOW you haven't had any trouble.
The website is anothermodel.com and the address of the person sending it (hidden deep in the Full Headers of course) is someone out of Hotmail.com.
Watch for the url, and here are two images to help distinguis the REAL paypal login with the FAKE. Obviously, it's the holiday season and the more people trying to scam that get caught the better, huh!
http://photobucket.com/albums/v309/lethe-gray/legal/
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Boo scams >___< 'Tis the season, I suppose..
One thing that the Paypal site pointed out is that e-mails that are actually from them always give the full name that you signed up with, while the scam mails tend to be addressed to 'Paypal member' or 'Paypal customer' or something generic like that. Just another thing to look out for - though I still don't log into anything without going to Paypal's actual site, first XD
One thing that the Paypal site pointed out is that e-mails that are actually from them always give the full name that you signed up with, while the scam mails tend to be addressed to 'Paypal member' or 'Paypal customer' or something generic like that. Just another thing to look out for - though I still don't log into anything without going to Paypal's actual site, first XD
Heh - I always find those funny because I'm not a member of paypal, so when I get those emails I chuckle and hit delete. 
One of those sort of things did give my mom a good panic awhile back, but she came to her senses before there was any damage done.
One of those sort of things did give my mom a good panic awhile back, but she came to her senses before there was any damage done.=-Lylan Keep-=
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Yeah normally I'd have discarded it too, but it IS on the account I have that Paypal acc't with. 
The one time I got some other bizarre scam it was on my Vanya_sengihr yahoo account. Now you KNOW I wouldn't have anything legal and serious on THAT account, right? Well, I get this weird thing from ebay or paypal or something, something big I can't remember what, and I immediately guess it's a scam, so I want to report it. Ah, I think it was a bank, like Wells Fargo or something. Turns out there is *no way* to report such things on their site, whoever it was, but in the process I find out that the scammers - located somewhere in eastern europe - had hacked into Chaosium.com - a GAME COMPANY I buy lots of games from. Went to their site, sure enough they knew they'd been hacked and were being used to send spam, it all got taken care of. But talk about a SMALL WORLD... 
The one time I got some other bizarre scam it was on my Vanya_sengihr yahoo account. Now you KNOW I wouldn't have anything legal and serious on THAT account, right? Well, I get this weird thing from ebay or paypal or something, something big I can't remember what, and I immediately guess it's a scam, so I want to report it. Ah, I think it was a bank, like Wells Fargo or something. Turns out there is *no way* to report such things on their site, whoever it was, but in the process I find out that the scammers - located somewhere in eastern europe - had hacked into Chaosium.com - a GAME COMPANY I buy lots of games from.
Went to their site, sure enough they knew they'd been hacked and were being used to send spam, it all got taken care of. But talk about a SMALL WORLD... Author of Repurposed
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Heh, I agree Indigo. I have a PayPal account now, but I got those Spam-mailings a few years back when I didn't have an account. I sat there, thinking, "They're stealing money from the account I never had. Oh yeah baby." 
PayPal occassionally responds with the auto-response if you send in a Spam-mailing. =D :: frames it on her wall ::
PayPal occassionally responds with the auto-response if you send in a Spam-mailing. =D :: frames it on her wall ::