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Paypal Scam Warning
It has hit again. Another lot trying to get your details. I got an email allegedly from paypal inviting me to log in and verify details as a security measure. It did look good. I logged in with the user name and password of bullshit@site.com and getstuffed567.

These are not my real login details but the scammers site accepted it.

The email is as follows: Be warned...

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<html><head><STYLE type=text/css>.dummy {}
BODY, TD {font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:
13px;color: #000000;}
UL {list-style: square}.pp_big {font-family:
verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:
24px;font-weight: bold;color: #003366;}
pp_sortofbig {font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:
22px;font-weight: bold;color: #003366;}
pp_heading {font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:
18px;font-weight: bold;color: #003366;}
pp_subheading {font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:
16px;font-weight: bold;color: #003366;}
pp_sidebartext {font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:
11px;color: #003366;}
pp_mediumtextbold {font-family:
verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:
14px;font-weight: bold;color: #000000;}
pp_smalltext {font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:
10px;font-weight: normal;color: #000000;}
pp_smallbluetext {font-family:
verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:
10px;font-weight: normal;color: #003366;}
pp_footer {font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:
11px;color: #aaaaaa;}
</STYLE><title>PayPal</title></head><body>
<table width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"
align="center"><tr>
<td><A href="https://www.paypal.com/">
<IMG src="http://www.paypal.com/images/paypal_logo.gif"
width=109 height=35 alt="PayPal" border="0" vspace=10></A></td></tr></table>
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr>
<td background="http://www.paypal.com/images/bg_clk.gif" width="100%">
<img src="http://www.paypal.com/images/pixel.gif" height="29" width="1"
border="0"></td>
</tr><tr><td><img src="http://www.paypal.com/images/pixel.gif" height="10"
width="1"
border="0"></td></tr></table>Dear PayPal user,<P>Your account has been
flagged in our
system as a part of our routine security measures. This is a must to ensure
that only you have
access and use of your paypal account and to ensure a safe PayPal
experience. We require
all flagged accounts to verify their information on file with us. To verify
your information,
<A HREF="http://83.148.74.76/www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/">please click
here.</A><P>Thank you for using PayPal! <br><br>
<img src="http://www.paypal.com/images/dot_row_long.gif"><p><FONT
SIZE="-2">Please do
not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be
answered.<br>Copyright© 2004
PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the
property of their
Can anyone quickly make up a quick script that gives them several hundred million user and pass combinations for their database? I simply see this as a good cause - ordinarily a very bad thing to do.

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Gypsypup: Nov 11, 2004, 10:52 PM
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Re: [Gypsypup] Paypal Scam Warning In reply to
Yeah... even leaving the form blank lets you through...doh! Its amazing how people get away with things like that :(

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