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Phishing Email: PayPal Account Suspended
« on: June 30, 2009, 06:13:05 PM »
This one looks reasonably official but is a scam. Do not respond to it or supply your PayPal details in reply to an email!

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Dear Paypal member:

 We were unable to process your most recent payment. Did you recently change your bank, phone number or credit card?.
To ensure that your service is not interrupted, please update your billing information today.
 Click on the link below .
 Or contact Paypal Member Services Team. We're available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
If you have recently updated your billing information, please disregard this message as we are processing the changes you have made.
 
?   Originator Identification Number: 679848
?   Reference Number: 47WJ2222U6JR4

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML, update your preferences.
 
Copyright ?1999-2008 PayPal. All rights reserved.

PayPal Email ID PP552
GBJZMOPOHDNLSKZHUEWSVMOPLPGZNHICQRIGHI --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

The links in the email do not go to PayPal but to a lookalike site which has been pulled by the webhost (but which may well reappear in some other place!)

Remember, PayPal will NEVER ask you to do what this email is asking!!!

Cheers, 
Anne, Board Admin

 

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