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Author Possible dodgy email from "paypal"
Claire
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Registered: 19th Jan 03
Location: The Sarrrf
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12th Aug 05 at 10:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Just recieved this email...



Has anyone else had it? It looks dodgy to me. I'm not going to be giving them my details
3CorsaMeal
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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12th Aug 05 at 10:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ignore them, if there is any major problem you'd know about it
TNM
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
Location: Nottingham Drives: VW Tiguan
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12th Aug 05 at 10:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
scam.

Most people dont have a static IP address so every time they log on it would be a differnt IP address
Stu
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Registered: 3rd May 00
Location: Madchester UK Drives: 2014 BMW M135i
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12th Aug 05 at 10:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Scam............Paypal will never ask you for your details!
Skinz
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Registered: 15th May 03
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12th Aug 05 at 10:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
view the source, check whats behind them links, more than likely will be a dodgy ip address
Claire
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Registered: 19th Jan 03
Location: The Sarrrf
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12th Aug 05 at 10:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
http://hometown.aol.de/stephanwoo/
Thats where it talkes u but then you get redirected to a site identical to paypal but im sure its not
jamesw
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Registered: 28th Jun 02
Location: Station Town, County Durham
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12th Aug 05 at 10:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
looks dodgy to me, as if he thinks hes been caught out or has chickend it as it ends up forwarding to the right page
RobHayes
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Registered: 6th Sep 03
Location: Lincolnshire
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12th Aug 05 at 15:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
soon as i clicked that link, norton antivirus popped up sayin it had found a trojan something or other, and it had deleted it automatically
langey
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Registered: 7th Sep 03
Location: Wigan
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12th Aug 05 at 15:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by RobHayes
soon as i clicked that link, norton antivirus popped up sayin it had found a trojan something or other, and it had deleted it automatically




trust me to click it before reading all the thread
Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
Location: West Midlands
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12th Aug 05 at 18:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
It's so obvious it's a fake email;

- PayPal DO NOT send emails as a large JPEG file
- PayPal DO NOT send emails with spelling and grammatical mistakes
- PayPal DO NOT have a department called "PayPal Department"

 
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