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  1. 10-12-2013, 11:44 AM #1
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    Default A New Phishing Expedition Hit My Inbox This Morning

    Got up and fed the cat, made coffee and lit a pipe. Logged on to find an email purporting to be from paypal. My account is suspended and just click this link to update my info and get it back in active status.

    Long time since I got one of those. So I forwarded it to spoof at paypal and I'll let them deal with it. The first time I got one of those I darn near fell for it. I went to the link and started typing my info in but a little voice said hold on.

    I xed out and went directly to the paypal site and my account was fine. So I came close to giving some scammer all of my personal info. Be careful out there guys.
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    I get those at least once a week.Also get the same from an ebay looking site.
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    I haven't had one for a while, and when I did get one, I didn't have a paypal account. I knew that one was a scam. Thanks for the heads up.
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    I don't trust anything anymore. Lots of spam from fake UPS and FedEx sites about some packkage I'm expecting. Problem is, I usually am with my various AD's, so always a temptation to click. DON'T DO IT!
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    What they are hoping for is you open it one day while your mind is elsewhere and you comply without thinking.
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    Yep, another one that's going around, supposedly from paypal, is "We've received a request for a password change from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. If this was not you, please log in here to verify your login details." I received two of those last week and, like you, forwarded the first one to spoof@paypal.com.


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