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Monday, June 11, 2007

Phishing Scams: How Scammers Get Your Info

SEE HOW OFFICIAL THIS EMAIL SEEMS? THE SCAMMERS ARE GOOD. DELETE THESE TYPES OF EMAILS IMMEDIATELY. PAYPAL WILL NEVER SEND YOU AN EMAIL LIKE THIS.





Warning Notification



Dear PayPal Costumer,

It has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.

However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records before PayPal June 2007.

Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal account activity will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.

Click here to update your PayPal account information






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*** There were also official paypal images on the email, however I deleted them for security reasons.

Never respond to an email with links asking for personal information, no matter who it says it is from.

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