Phishing Scam E-Mails: Paypal (13)

During the past year, I received many e-mail solicitations that appear to be phishing e-mails. Phishing e-mails are e-mails from scam artists who use "official" looking webpages designed to trick you into believing they are from a website such as EBay, Paypal, America Online, banks, financial institutions. They generally imply that your account will be suspended or deactivated unless you click the link to the webpage that is linked from the e-mail. Sometimes they say that someone is trying to use your account or this is done for "security" purposes. Once you are at the site, they will ask for personal information. You may be asked to provide or verify personal information such as bank account information, credit card information, social security information and password information. If you get such an e-mail, you should delete it and do not provide any of the requested information. However, if you are still not convinced that you have a fraudulent e-mail, please contact the company directly and explain the e-mail you received.

Protect Your Account Info

Make sure you never provide your password to fraudulent websites.

PayPal will never ask you to enter your password in an email.

For more information on protecting yourself from fraud, please review our Security Tips at https://www.paypal.com/ie/securitytips

Protect Your Password

You should never give your PayPal password to anyone, including PayPal employees.

It has come to our attention that your Paypal account has been accessed by a third party, meaning that an unauthorized person has logged into your account.
We require that you login to your account and update your billing information and security questions, so that furter third party access can be prevented.

Faillure to update your billing information and security questions before 72 hours may ressult in suspension of your account.

To proceed in updating your billing information and security questions, please click on the following link:

http://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd= login-update&login access=1142486462

Updating your billing information and security questions will prevent unauthorized third party access, and possibly unauthorized purchases. We thank you for your participation in updating your account.

Sincerely,
The Paypal Team

Please note that this is not a complete list of all our products and features. All products, features, and policies are subject to change. Be sure to log in to your PayPal account on a regular basis to view the "Policy Updates" page which can be found in the "What's New" box.

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

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The information provided on this website is provided for informational purposes only and should not be considered legal advice.

Scam Email Alert	A public service from the
Scam Email Alert	Law Offices of Thomas Gross
419 Fraud, Lottery Fraud, Phishing & Other Scams	Exposing Internet Fraud & Scams

Date:	Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:11:14 +0200
To:	info@svbizlaw.com
Subject:	Update Your Account
From:	"service-paypal " <service@intl.paypal.com>