Hello everyone. Well, the 'Phishers' are at it again. Here are just two of the emails I have received. Sent to various email address's both myself & our company use. I have also included the reply from Pay Pal's spoof email dept. --------------------------------------------- PayPal Account Limited! PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employees some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity. We are currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures. Your account has been randomly selected for this maintenance, and you will now be taken through a series of identity verification pages. In order to confirm your PayPal records, we may require some specific information from you. Click here to verify your account Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to temporaly suspend your account. Thank you for using PayPal! The PayPal Team -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the footer of any page. To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML, update your preferences here. PayPal Email ID: 1yaltX3etjolWl857G ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is the second email. Dear PayPal Customer This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by PayPal to detect inactive customers and non-functioning mailboxes. The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in the next 3 months. Please confirm your email address and credit card information by logging in to your PayPal account using this link: https://www.paypal.com Thanks for using PayPal! This PayPal notification was sent to your mailbox. Your PayPal account is set up to receive the PayPal Periodical newsletter and product updates when you create your account. To modify your notification preferences and unsubscribe, go to https://www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI and log in to your account. Changes to your preferences may take several days to be reflected in our mailings. Replies to this email will not be processed. Copyright© 2003 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. The HTML graphics in this message have been blocked. [Show HTML Graphics - Edit Preferences] -------------------------------------------- This is Pay Pal's reply Dear Anthony Hobbs, 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 authorized 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 into your PayPal Account and change your password and secret question and answer information. Any compromised financial information should be reported to the appropriate parties. If you notice any unauthorized activity associated with your PayPal transaction history, please immediately report this to PayPal by following the instructions below: -------------------------------------------- Below where I have stopped the email is a long, very long list of instructions on what to do if you mistakenly belived these email's. It is hard to paste the actual emails here, as they look very professionaly done, in the same font as Pay pal uses & the same colors, but like Pay pal say when you first report these 'Phishing' emails. PayPal always contacts it's customers using their Names & account numbers, any other email purporting to be from Pay Pal, will not. In all cases, check with Pay Pal first before entering any of your information. I Hope this is of help to you all.

Hey Anthony, Thanks for the heads-up again. If these "phishers" put there brains to use on something legit, they would probably make a ton of money. Instead they play around and try to rip people off, my bet is they aren't that successful. BTY, how's UAG going for you?

Hey Anthony, A BIG thanks for posting this info. Over the last 3 to 4 months we have received several of these emails. It's not just a matter of them getting some of your money. Alot of these guys are after your IDENTITY. Just last week CNN ran a 2 hour special on fraudulent emails so you know the problem is very widespread. The reporter hosting the show said he was almost fooled by a cleverly disguised email until he realized he didn't even have an account with such-and-such bank that was supposedly asking him to verify personal information. These scamsters are becoming quite savvy and it's becoming more difficult even for the pros to spot them. SO EVERYBODY - scrutinize your emails very carefully and remember, no bank or financial institution will EVER ask for your personal data by email. - Preston and Rebekah Gaymon - http://www.myvideotalk.com/14526 "The Premier Online Communications Company"

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