WARNING! Please read if you have Pay-pal acct.

[tazmania99]

If you receive a email as followed, DO NOT GIVE ANY INFORMATION THROUGH THE LINK IN THE EMAIL!





<< Dear Sir,

We regret to inform you that due to system failure we have lost our backups of all accounts, so most of accounts are on HOLD status, including yours, if you want to continue our service without any trouble, then you are advised to please go to following Paypal.com page and enter your information, so that we can update your account information.

Please go to: http://www.paypal-inc.com (New window will open)

If you do not want to enter information, then your account will be automatically DELETED after 3rd May 2002

We really appreciate your help in this mater.



Regards,

David John

Head Customer Support Department

Paypal.com >>


First, http://www.paypal-inc.com is not a registered domain. And when you click the link in the email, you will be directed to another site http://www.paypal-help.co-inc.com/ and the site was running outside USA.



Mods, I know this is not a hot deal but just wanna warn the others about this scam email since many of us have paypal accounts. If you still think it is not appropriate, just go ahead and lock it. I apologize.

 

[olouie]

these come up every day now...:|

 

[dajeepster]

yeah, i just recieved one of these emails and the funny thing is... i've never had a Paypal account.
so I just blasted an email back that said:

yeah right.... F*** You

 

[VaG]

Plain & Simple. Never click a link in an e-mail.

 

[mdcrab]

The link no longer works! Hopefully they have been shutdown.

mdcrab

 

[tmchow]

www.co-inc.com is a URL redirection service. They have cancelled the redirection for this scam.

 

[starwarsdad]

bump

 

[thedeliman]

=)

thanx for the heads up!

 

[avhokie]

people should be smart enough not to fall for this crap. If it's not paypal.com, don't freaking use it.

 

[Packy]

<< people should be smart enough not to fall for this crap. If it's not paypal.com, don't freaking use it. >>



And especially if it isn't a secure site! (https)

 

[Buz2b]

<< people should be smart enough not to fall for this crap >>

In a perfect world I would agree. Unfortunately, as the saying goes, "there's a sucker born every minute." 99% wouldn't fall for it or at least would do some checking on the regular site. The remaining 1% would do just as instructed like mindless robots and that is why these A**holes keep doing this kind of crap. It only takes a few to make some $$.

 

[bobbysworld]

i agree

 

[VTBigBear]

bump

 

[schuang74]

I have one word for this........ DUH?

 

[MrHans]

Dangit, and I already gave them the credit information....not

 

[redls1]

I just had the same thing happen to my wife on her aol account. She doesnt even have a paypal account, I do.

 

[Willith]

Bumper

 

[IndyDrunkPunk]

This should only be sent to AOL users...They're the only ones that will fall for it.

 

[dudesowetodit]

EVERYONE: NEXT TIME SOME EMAIL LIKE THIS SURFACES, EVERYONE NEEDS TO FILL IN FAKE INFO LIKE MAD AND JUST LET THE ARSE KEEP TRYING OUT ALL THE FAKE ACCOUNTS UNTIL THE REAL PAYPAL LOGS THEM AND HUNTS THEM DOWN. If that doesn't work at least we can piss them off with all that time wasted on trying to gain access.

 

[MoMeanMugs]

<< EVERYONE: NEXT TIME SOME EMAIL LIKE THIS SURFACES, EVERYONE NEEDS TO FILL IN FAKE INFO LIKE MAD AND JUST LET THE ARSE KEEP TRYING OUT ALL THE FAKE ACCOUNTS UNTIL THE REAL PAYPAL LOGS THEM AND HUNTS THEM DOWN. If that doesn't work at least we can piss them off with all that time wasted on trying to gain access. >>



What are you yelling for? Calm down you pre-pubescent n00b.

 

[Wolverine27]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[huzefa1]

What's the big deal about clicking a link? There's no harm in clicking a link. What IS stupid is putting in your password. Besides if you email is set to exclusive like mine is, you'll never have this prob.

 

[PhylloDo]

<< =)

thanx for the heads up!

-------------------------
"I am so smart! I am so smart!
S-M-R-T... I mean S-M-A-R-T."

(Ralph Wiggum) >>




That's Homer's quote. Not Ralph's.

 

[FreebieBoy]

wow this is the 3rd scam in 1 month.

 

[Swanny]

I hate stupid people that try to scam people. The bad thing is that they will probably $100,000 or more off this:|