BEWARE! PAYPAL SCAM!

[barginhunter]

I always expand the email to full header and report them , spoof@ebay.com , I'm not sure what the paypal address is for reporting fraud .
Hopefully they track them down ?

[FreakyOCR]

I have to say, I almost fell for it. I thought my Paypal account was disabled. But when I clicked the link I noticed at it was https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=verify @ (the ip addy)

Sneeky. I remember learning about that. You can put (almost) ANYTHING before the @ symbol and it will work.

Try this!

https://www.paypal.com/FreeMoney

See what I mean?

The fact that it almost fooled me had me nervous. How many people would actually fall for it?

[mrharryporter]

Yeah I received that same email a few months ago. Its been just to delete it like all spam.

[benji]

Normally they will use your personal name. I just call paypals 800 number to make sure 1st. You can't trust anything these days!!

[butch81385]

tech tv did a speacial on scams once... they talked about this one and about that prince willing to send you money if you give your bank number.... they said there have been thousands of people falling for this and even about 16 deaths due to people going to places like nigeria trying to get their money back....

i will see if i can find a link somewhere

[Theophylact]

I've been getting similar fraudulent notices from what purports to be Earthlink (though a mouse-hover on the link shows that it's not). I forward them to "fraud@corp.earthlink.net" with a covering e-mail; they want to stop these people even more than I do, because these guys are hurting their reputations. I bet that PayPal and EBay have similar addresses you can send messages to.

[butch81385]

i almost want to sign up for a credit card, report it stolen, then give the numbers to these people.. it would be interesting to see what would happen