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Title: Paypal scam Post by: Radnor Bandit (Ian) on April 29, 2014, 07:31:53 AM Just a quick heads up peeps, I had a scam email from what looks like paypal to the effect my account has been temporary frozen due to heartbleed bug, and it says click on the link to rectify it.
DO NOT OPEN IT Instead you should forward the mail to spoof@paypal.co.uk This spoof mail was addressed , "hello dear customer" All emails from paypal are addressed to the account holder by name and do not contain links. Title: Re: Paypal scam Post by: roaljodaka on April 29, 2014, 07:35:52 AM I had the same last year!!, and the actual paypal page was almost identical, they wanted my password, they said my account was frozen due to a lot of people trying to access it. Grrrrrrrrrrr
Title: Re: Paypal scam Post by: jcb (THE THIMBLE) jones on April 29, 2014, 07:36:39 AM thanks ian for the heads up ;) ;)
Title: Re: Paypal scam Post by: Val Beechey on April 29, 2014, 07:49:59 AM We've had the same with BT Norwich Union, Nat West and a string of others. Joke on them is we don't even have an account with any of these except BT.
We've made a rule, If you get an E.Mail from anyone you do have an account with, DONT open it, go to the official site and check it out there or phone them. Same applies to phone calls, and don't phone immediately, leave it for an hour. Val Title: Re: Paypal scam Post by: NEMESIS on April 29, 2014, 08:22:30 AM Nice one R/B, thnx for heads up.
Good advice there VAL, I never thought about the phone call scams... Cheers. :) Title: Re: Paypal scam Post by: troutmasterfunk on April 29, 2014, 08:30:21 AM Thanks for sharing :-)
Title: Re: Paypal scam Post by: Napoleon on April 29, 2014, 08:33:22 AM >:( same for me yesterday
Title: Re: Paypal scam Post by: Chef Geoff on April 29, 2014, 08:39:09 AM I get them all the time from either a bank or paypal/ebay and I now always check the email address from where it's come from which is usually a dead give away ;)
Title: Re: Paypal scam Post by: galoshers on April 29, 2014, 10:33:27 AM the 419 gentlemen are at work all over the net
Title: Re: Paypal scam Post by: grego on April 29, 2014, 10:47:35 AM Thanks for the warning.
Title: Re: Paypal scam Post by: geordiefred on April 29, 2014, 04:28:35 PM I get them all the times and don't even have a Paypal account, the wife has and she also gets them but she logs into Paypal from a different source and they are always scams. >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: Paypal scam Post by: dances with badgers on April 29, 2014, 06:47:44 PM paypal are wonkers :( and fleabay
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