I almost got my account snatched by someone good thing I looked at the url.

Look at this email I received, its very convincing.


So watch out if you get an email like this...

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Paypal will never ask you to confirm any of your credit details or passwords, the only thing they ask for is to verify the email when you first sign up, its important to point out paypal never ask you to re-input ANY information, these emails are aimed at the not so computer literate people, glad to see you didnt get caught by it.

P.S. This is such an old trick for hackers but still really effective XD

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that's kind of scary that it went through your gmail it doesn't block it and went to the spam folder?

from the thing that I know, paypal is only sending you email when you made transaction or change something on your account. They won't send anything else.. right? i never received anything from paypal other that those though...

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Read what i said, also be aware of address that look familiar, i think i had an ebay one once, instead of ebay.com it was ebbay.com

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I'm not too worried about falling for one of these, although that's not to say it won't ever happen. These guys (I'm stereotyping, but most of scammers are guys) are getting smarter and better at what they do. Eventually I may get nailed by one. My real concern is the people that aren't fairly tech savvy and get scared when they read stuff like this. Obviously it's working on somebody or these emails wouldn't be sent.

One thing I did is to setup a separate email address for my Paypal account - paypal@example.com. That way I know that if I get anything that looks like it comes from Paypal but doesn't come through that account then it has to be fake.

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haha exactly! I have different email for my Paypal account. But you may also get this email on your paypal account email though

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