False email using Pay Pal

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be careful you guys... it had to happen I guess.

I got an email from 'pay pal' and it wanted me to conferm my account...

I looked at the link and its not real. the actuall address goes to some sort of kids website (Town4 Kids), but add the back part and it takes you to pay pal 'website'

Main link:
http://202.172.226.72/

Now add this to the link above in the address bar:
.cgi-bin/login.htm


now I am on a pay pal site??? give me a break!!!!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Old news......... this has been going on for a long time.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Joe, PayPal never sends email asking for any info on your account. Never.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh man! Now you tell me!... JK

I got this same email and did the same exact thing and looked at the url. Some of those are really convincing. I've seen then create addresses like, http://services.paypal.x.com/login.htm or something close to that.. hehehe
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I get similar ones from Microsoft and from different financial institutes.....scum preying on folks who aren't too computer savvy.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've gotten about a half dozen of those PayPal phishing emails. I was pretty sure the first one was phony, but I forwarded it to PayPal and they confirmed that they would never send an email like that. I got a few more, but haven't seen any for a while.