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    PayPal Phishing Scam!

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    !!!WARNING!!!
    A PayPal phishing scam has been discovered!
    Emails have been sent by a fake PayPal employee!
    The email title is "Update your PayPal recordsUpdate your PayPal records."
    The sender is [email protected]!
    The email looks exactly like this below!

    Warning Notification


    Dear PayPal Member ,
    It has come to our attention that your PayPal® account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
    However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records before July 9, 2007.
    Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal® account activity will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
    Click here to update your account information

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    For the safety of your financial standing, I have disabled the links! If you do recieve this email, do not click on any links! If you want to get onto PayPal, please manually go to the site and manually log in! AOL has blocked the links on the email for all of its members! For more info on this scam, please visit http://daol.aol.com/articles/scams/paypalscam


    PayPal Phishing Scam!
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    Flying Piggy's Avatar Banned
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    Re: PayPal Phishing Scam!

    Thank you for the heads up Neckername .

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    Re: PayPal Phishing Scam!

    Theres also one like that for msn messanger i got one like 5min ago i was going to post it but i guess i should post it here lol.

    It just says that msn is going to be charging for using there account and that you have to send the money to some place (forget where and i deleted it lol )

    How do i know this is fake?
    Well it says that if you forward the message to 5 ple they wont charge you ~.^

    Just thought yall migh wana know that

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    Re: PayPal Phishing Scam!

    The MSN one is just another dipshit chain mail, so just ignore it

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    Re: PayPal Phishing Scam!

    :l a japanese dude once stole money from my parent's credit cards...
    The bank agent called and said "Are you in japan currently or were you in the last two weeks?" then my dad responded "Did you call my house just now? I think if you did im not in japan. and no i didnt go you doorknob! now, waddya need?" was funny as hell to listen to... (i was on the other line cuz i answered call)

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