***Caution***: Paypal Users
 

Those who use Paypal may of been recently sent a suspicious looking email.

The title of this email may say:- 'User agreement has been changed [16532]'

And the beginning of the email starts with:-

You may notice that 'several important changes' has been hyperlinked, hovering over this link you will see that it links to an ip address and gallery/items/.1/ proceeds the IP. Other links in the email link to this location.

Warning: Do not click any of the links contained in this email. Please do not enter any personal or financial information into this website. The link(s) in this email are not a registered URL authorized or used by PayPal. Paypal have been notified and have confirmed that such an email was not sent by them and they are currently investigating this incident fully.

For further information regarding the security of your paypal account visit:-

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/websc...curity-outside

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I got this email, how the hell did they get an email address that I've never given to anyone?

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I just got one as well, good job I noticed the link address :mad:

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That is actually a very good question. :erm:

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one I got was dated 1/1/1970 ?

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Me too. Trashed it straight away.

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I had one and it might have worked if they had managed to get the dates right I noticed that they we saying that
"until they agree to the new User Agreement, or until January 31, 2005, whichever comes first."

That and fact that the from address is Nobody [nobody@vulcan.cybexhost.com]; on behalf of; [service@paypal.com].

Have they been hacked ?

Scarlett.

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I just got it as well - VERY convincing except when you click on the links within the email which go to an IP address and also hang.

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I just got one this morning. All i do is forward them to spoof@paypal.co.uk
Weather it helps or not i don`t know.

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I got one too, but again they made a fatal error. They sent it to an e-mail addy that doesnt have a paypal account and not the one that does. hehe
shame the links didnt work as i was going to give them some bogus data

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got one too...luckily gmail highlighted it in red and said not to open it, so i just deleted it :)

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I sent mine to Paypal and they replied as follows....

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Just got the e-mail this morning........

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Good point. I have my own domain so every time I sign up to a site, I use the name of the site @ mydomain as my e-mail address. This helps me track which sites share my e-mail address when I start receiving spam. When I signed up here, I used nthellworld@<mydomain> as my e-mail address. When I received the paypal e-mail this morning, it was addressed to nthellword@<mydomain>

Has somebody managed to get hold of the nthellworld user database? I have checked my public profile and my e-mail address isn't shown there. Likewise it isn't shown in my posts.

It seems very unlikely that somebody would have guessed the above address!

Mags

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I've been sent the e-mail to the address that I used to register on this forum, & I have no paypal account.