Beware of email from "PayPal"

[Elendil]

Just want to alert everyone to an email I received from someone impersonating paypal. This is the text of the email:

During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedure we have detected a
slight error in your PayPal account.

This might be due to the following reasons:


1. A recent change in your personal information (ie. change of address, email address)

2. An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due to an internal
error within our systems.



We have attached a form to this email. Please download the form and follow the
instructions on your screen. NOTE: The form needs to be opened in a modern browser which has
javascript enabled (ex: Internet Explorer, Firefox ,Netscape)


Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account.
We apologize for any inconvenience.

If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to temporary suspend your account.



Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department.

Sounds pretty authentic doesn't it? Of course the "form" asked for my paypal ID, password ad debit card/bank account number.............

This is the email that it was sent from: webform@intl.paypal.com

Please be aware before providing any info like this via email. PayPal will not ask you for your password.

Happy vaping!

 

[CaptJay]

Reading it I see the grammatical error that probably I would have missed on an email that shows it to be fake or suspicious..

"...you leave us no choice but to temporary suspend your account"

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[AngusATAT]

I got the same email.

Obvious scam is obvious.

 

[Lab]

hope you checked for a hidden extension on the form before opening it..

 

[River Rafter]

hope you checked for a hidden extension on the form before opening it..

How do you do that?

 

[BradSmith]

I have gotten tons of these over the years from people posing as paypal. I wouldn't even open it (it could have a nasty bug as well), you just forward it to spoof@paypal.com then delete the message and run an anti-virus and anti-spy-bot program.

If you enter the information they will wipe out any funds they can get their hands on.

 

[Elendil]

I have gotten tons of these over the years from people posing as paypal. I wouldn't even open it (it could have a nasty bug as well), you just forward it to spoof@paypal.com then delete the message and run an anti-virus and anti-spy-bot program.

If you enter the information they will wipe out any funds they can get their hands on.

Good advice. This is why I never keep money in my PP account for more than 24 hours. I've gotten these before as well, but though I would post this as a warning to anyone who hasn't seen one before........

 

[jj2]

I've received this, or something similar, several times. I've even reported it.
If you do get a message like this and you are worried, ALWAYS go the PayPal website and check there.
The best advice has already been given but if you do open DO NOT FOLLOW ANY LINK THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE EMAIL.

 

[Israfil]

Recieved it a looong while back. Noticed bad grammar. Reported and deleted.

As captain tightpants says, obvious scam is obvious.

Edit: I should probably mention that the thing that was most glaringly obvious about it was that the URLs they wanted me to use were incorrect, although most people wouldn't notice that.

 

[Lab]

How do you do that?

you right click on it and check the properties of it.. it is simple to make a txt word or other document file cover up a executable file..

 

[CaptJay]

I actually scrolled up looking for a post by 'captain tightpants'