In the last couple of days, I have received two suspicious emails, both deposited into my Junk Folder on downloading, and both purporting to be from PayPal, wanting financial information. Both I left unopened, however I did manage to forward a copy of one of the emails of to PayPal for evaluation, and the result....a hit!!


This is a part quote from Paypal response to me;

"Suspicious Email (KMM121706960I96L0KM) pk1"

"Thank you for contacting PayPal.

We appreciate you bringing this suspicious email to our attention. We
can confirm that the email you received was not sent to you by PayPal.
The website linked to this email is not a registered URL authorised or
used by PayPal. We are currently investigating this incident fully.
Please do not enter any personal or financial information into this
website.

If you have surrendered any personal or financial information to this
fraudulent website, you should immediately log in to your PayPal account
and change your password and secret question and answer information. Any
compromised financial information should be reported to the appropriate
parties"

This is just to alert Forum Members that this is happening now. Be aware and alert!

Thanks for the warning, Tony.

Originally Posted by Dwarf

Thanks for the warning, Tony.

G'day Mate, 'ow'yer'goin'me'olefruit-fly?

You're welcome young fella! Suspicion was immediately raised when the email was delivered to an account that I do not conduct 'personal admin business' on, and when it was quickly dispatched to the Junk Folder........."alarm bells"....I just turned it around by forwarding it to PayPal, then set about deleting the original and the forwarded copy, from my files.

Give PayPal their due, their response was very prompt!

Thanks Tony.

Originally Posted by garysgold

Thanks Tony.

Thanks Gary,

R'fer Rat says "G'Day" to yer Chipmonk!

Chip says G'Day back.

Just noticed that the link in your sig isn't working. I think maybe the name was changed. (To protect the innocent no doubt. )

Take Care,

Gary

I have a rule in outlook that auto forwards any paypal emails to spoof@paypal.com

Thanks Sassy... how are you doing these days?

Hi Tony, long time no see hope you're well we've not seen Norm around lately either so I hope he's OK.

Another thing with Paypal if they do send you an email it is always addressed to you by name never just Hello Paypal user or whatever. I've send a couple of fake emails to them before now but nothing lately so I'll be on the look out now. Thanks for the warning.