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April 30, 2004

PayPal Scam

Jeffrey Smoot
Would like to advise MacInTouch readers of a new PayPal phishing expedition. Along with the obvious typo, the login link points to www.qaypal.com.

Dear valued member of PayPal.

We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your PayPal account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party. Protecting the security of your account and of the PayPal network is our primary concern. Therefore, as a preventative measure, we have temporarily limited access to sensitive PayPal account features. To restore your account access, please take the following steps to ensure that your account has not been compromised:

1. Loghin follow our secure site and update all necesary information to your acount
2. 2. Review your recent account history for any unauthorized payments sent or received, and check your account profile to make sure not changes have been made.

To get started, please go directly to https://www.paypal.com (http://www.qaypal.com/login.htm) and log in to your PayPal account.

Ryan Aumiller
Just wanted to provide a heads-up about what looks to be a new and PayPal scam. The email comes from "service@paypal.com" and looks in all initial accounts to be legitimate (even referencing my full name and some credit card information). If it is a scam (as you can see, I'm still not quite sure), I was very close to becoming a victim myself.

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