Wednesday, April 22, 2009

A Recent PayPal Scam Email

We regret to inform you that access to yo
Here's the latest Pay Pal scam. We received this email 4 times in one day. We hope those of you who use PayPal realize you shouldn't do anything with your account unless you sign in directly to your account at PayPal. Don't use a link. Go from your browser.

Hopefully this information will help someone understand this is supposedly a scam.

Remember, any time you receive a questionable email, please forward to spam@uce.gov to assist them in recognizing and fighting online spam scams.

Here's a copy of the email we received. This is for information purposes only. We haven't verified the validity of this email, but based on receiving 4 copies from different people, we have to believe it's a scam.


We regret to inform you that access to your account has been temporarily
limited.

This has been done due to several failed log-in attempts.

Case ID: AX-212-21-33

To restore your account please click here :

http://www.netsecuritysolutionsltda.com/bd/cmd/

If you fail to log in correctly your account will be suspended for fraud
prevention.

You will be able to register again for PayPal only after you authenticate your
profile.

We apologize for the inconvenience, this measure was taken for your protection.

PayPal Security Team