PayPal weird email

[sirio11]

I received the following email:

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You have added newaddress01@aol.com as a new email address for your
PayPal account.

If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with
your account, please contact PayPal customer service at:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run


Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

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But, I don't have any PayPal account [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
Why did I receive this mail?
How they got my email? Any clue about what could've happened?

[primetime32]

thats called email fraud. You go to the site and type in your information and some lowlife steals your money. ignore it or if you are truly worried, just called paypal and ask them if they sent you an email. i can bet they didnt.

[KingMedicine]

sirio - this is a very common "spoof" email. i get this exact email about 2xs a week. the first time it scared the snot out of me, but now i auto-click delete.
nothing to worry about.

[Keith Fellmy]

yep this is a spoof email. I get them many times a week from "Paypal" and from "Ebay." The ones from "paypal" use the address "phonesellers@yahoo.com". It is totally fake. Ignore it, but I do sign up the addy to every gay porn site that I can find. In case that email address is real...then someone is going to see a lot of man-sex emails. LOL.

Someone did get into my ebay account and started selling expensive phones in England. Once I got the problem fixed, i started getting a lot of spoof emails from ebay and paypal...that weren't from ebay or paypal.

Just ignore it and the frequency that you get them will go down. After a year I now only get them once a week.

[nyc999]

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I received the following email:

__________

You have added newaddress01@aol.com as a new email address for your
PayPal account.

If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with
your account, please contact PayPal customer service at:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run


Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

___________


But, I don't have any PayPal account [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
Why did I receive this mail?
How they got my email? Any clue about what could've happened?

[/ QUOTE ]

If you ever question the authenticity of one of these emails, click on the link and it usually asks for your name/password. The phishing links will take any incorrect password.

[wulfheir]

Username: NiceTryYou
Password: IdiotsUSuck

This email is obviously legitimate and you need to respond immediately, my friend.

[sirio11]

Maybe I should add that the email was sent by service@paypal.com

[HRFats]

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Maybe I should add that the email was sent by service@paypal.com

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That was spoofed as well. But don't sign that addy up to gay porn...

[Keith Fellmy]

Why not????

yea don't sign up paypal for ANY porn!!!!!!

though I think it would be funny.