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Title: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: Poddy on October 25, 2009, 05:30:24 PM: If you receive this email DELETE IT it is a Phishing email to get your PayPal details.

Here is a copy I have disabled the link.

DO NOT click the link or try to answer the email

Your Paypal account has been blocked?
From: XXXXXXXXXX@XXXXXXXX .com on behalf of PayPal (paypal@paypal .coom) (notice the spelling)
Sent: Sunday, 25 October 2009 7:56:46 AM

Dear users of PayPal services,

We regret to inform you that your PayPal account will be suspended due to the violation of our site policy below:

False or missing contact information - Falsifying or omitting your name, address, and/or telephone number(including use of fax machines pager numbers, modems or disconnected numbers).

Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using PayPAl in any way.
Click here to activate your account

According the new changes in Service Agreement any unverified account will be deleted from the system in 24 hours after receiving this letter and your bank account will be investigated for fraud.

Thank You for using PayPal!
Your PayPal team.
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: *Ubbie Max* on October 25, 2009, 05:32:54 PM: G'day Poddy. I wonder how many will fall for that one. They ( the authors) couldn't even get the spelling correct.
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: Poddy on October 25, 2009, 05:44:52 PM: Ubb,
Unfortunately a LOT of people react in panic mode and do not engage the thought proccesses :(
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: *CountessA* on October 25, 2009, 05:48:24 PM: Very, very true, Poddy. That's why I tell people to NEVER EVER EVER EVER click onto links in emails.

What you do as a habit (thinking you know the email's legitimate) you are more likely to do when worried or flustered. People who click onto email links KNOWING that the links are legitimate are increasing the risk they'll click onto a bad link one day.

But if people get into the habit of never, never, never, never, never, never, not under any circumstances, just never, I mean never, absolutely never clicking onto a link in an email, they will have that ingrained habit to act as a brake when they fall into panic mode.
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: tellomon on October 25, 2009, 06:47:27 PM: Old scam. New day.

Tell it to the www.Noobs who don't know Jack about the net, Jill!

They'll thank ye for it!

C):-{= <" better yet: kill yer paypal account, and surf the web in the dark...! "<<
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: Roo on October 25, 2009, 07:24:03 PM: Funny though....when I see those fishing scams...I wonder where they originally got the main text of them from..lol

What is the bet that all those scammers are guilty of supplying false info to Ebay at some stage...lol
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: tellomon on October 25, 2009, 08:19:36 PM: What is the bet that all those scammers are guilty of supplying false info to Ebay at some stage...lol

Help me:

Is that 'mixed metaphores', oxymoron, self-fulfilling Prophecy or bittersweet paradigm?

There's something about that array of words that begs a sarcastic remark, bad joke or passive-aggressive comment.

And I have delivered none of the above.

**slinks swiftly away under cover of vagueness** :runningman:
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: *CountessA* on October 25, 2009, 08:37:49 PM: Roo, how can you possibly suggest that scammers might have tried to scam eBay! What outrage! No, no, I believe those scammers are actually missionaries, teachers and school crossing attendants in real life.
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: tellomon on October 25, 2009, 08:52:03 PM: Quote from: countessa on October 25, 2009, 08:37:49 PM
Roo, how can you possibly suggest that scammers might have tried to scam eBay! What outrage! No, no, I believe those scammers are actually missionaries, teachers and school crossing attendants in real life.

But NOT Forum Mods.

Professional courtesy implied.
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: *smee* on October 25, 2009, 08:54:31 PM: Whats that brown mark on your nose Tello ?
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: tellomon on October 25, 2009, 09:18:53 PM: Quote from: smee on October 25, 2009, 08:54:31 PM
Whats that brown mark on your nose Tello ?

(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r271/rontello/Ron%20Tello%20pix/download-22.jpg)

Gunpowder residue?

(slam duly noted. happy now?)
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: *smee* on October 25, 2009, 09:20:25 PM: Yep ... as you were ... soldier on !
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: tellomon on October 25, 2009, 09:23:10 PM: :smee!: :rifle: "Take that!"

Digressing to "Back on Topic": I believe this issue has been posted here recently.

I distinctly remember posting: "I get the biggest kick out of those PayPal emails telling me that I have a dissatisfied buyer awaiting my response.......

...I've never been a Seller!!!"

:rofl:

:bigcalibre: :ebaysign:
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: *smee* on October 25, 2009, 09:33:13 PM: (http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/tt336/smeeagain61/dog-poo.gif)

:tello:
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: tellomon on October 25, 2009, 10:10:45 PM: (http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/tt336/smeeagain61/dog-poo.gif)

:smee!:

Now what's yer whinge, Mate?
Ya going all "Seller Elite Syndrome" on my watch?

Say so; I say:

" 'scuuze meeee, smee! Not all of God's Creatures were born with an eBay Sellers' Account.

Some of us have to Buy for a Living.
And do you see any of my buying history on yer screen?

NO!
Why?

Cuz you weren't selling what I wanted, and what I wanted...I bought from all those wonderful "Other Guys". That's right.

Did you happen to earn over 100 Thousand Dollars (US) in yer illustrious Selling Career?

No? Saaad.

That's how much I spent in 4 years of "Power Buying".

And it FEELS GOOD!

End of yer whinge, eh?"

Am I correct?
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: *smee* on October 25, 2009, 10:16:26 PM: Am I correct?

frayed knot

weighorftamarque
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: *CountessA* on October 25, 2009, 10:18:17 PM: I've bought from Smee. I'd give him more than 5 stars (but not chocolate stars because - sorry - I'd have eaten them. Sorry, Smee).
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: tellomon on October 25, 2009, 10:36:56 PM: Quote from: smee on October 25, 2009, 10:16:26 PM
Am I correct?

frayed knot
weighorftamarque

It was just a wild (creative) guess.

So what up, Dog? Why the diss?
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: *smee* on October 25, 2009, 10:48:32 PM: nuthin's up .... I was the one bein' dissed .... wrong target .... I dont take kindly to being seriously and incorrectly belittled..... the wrong reign has been pulled.... at their peril.... pardons can be granted if repent, show remorse or plead insanity .......not forseeable .... requires intestinal fortitude or gonads
Title: Re: **IMPORTANT**URGENT** Another PayPal email SCAM **
Post by: tellomon on October 25, 2009, 10:55:43 PM: Quote from: countessa on October 25, 2009, 10:18:17 PM
I've bought from Smee. I'd give him more than 5 stars (but not chocolate stars because - sorry - I'd have eaten them. Sorry, Smee).

I have no doubt that you Aussies buy from and sell to each other the same 147 items, every shopping day!

Here in Montello, the same 100 Dollar Bill changes hands and never leaves town.
It's the one I dropped at the store years ago. It's embossed with my Corporate Seal, so I know it's my prank!

Pls, got a link to smee's FeedBack?

You know I've posted mine...and it's ALL REAL! Not those crappy watered down "false-positives" like all those other numpties get all the time.....

Link, please?
I just wanna......see? Compare notes? Market research?

----->Nosey.

____________________________________________________

Quote from: smee on October 25, 2009, 10:48:32 PM
nuthin's up .... I was the one bein' dissed .... wrong target .... I dont take kindly to being seriously and incorrectly belittled..... some have pulled the wrong reign.... their peril.

AWW-jeeeez!!! THAT again?

Yeah I'm with ya there. Ding-Dang crossed wires are most troublesome, and...well, I'm sure glad [read:"Lucky"] that we're solid.

For keeps: I wuzzint trippin' balz-out on yer watch...just having my tea and pizzing too!

Cheer! :wine: