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I got this weird email from Paypal today... looked kinda fishy so I was careful.






PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY

Congratulations! You have received this Notice because the records of PayPal, Inc. indicate you are a current or former PayPal account holder who has been deemed eligible to receive a payment from the class action settlement in accordance with PayPal Litigation, Case No. 02 1227 JF PVT, pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose.

In your specific case you have been found to be eligible for a payment of $88.99 USD.

The aforementioned settlement funds may be transferred directly to your bank account providing you have a linked card. The funds may not be credited directly to your PayPal account as this would render Paypal to be accumulating interest and thus profiting on litigation settlement funds which contravenes Federal law. Your bank account will be credited within 7 days upon submission of account details.

To credit your bank account please click here.

Don't forget to check your bank account for the PayPal deposits and get Verified!
If you are seeking an alternate method of receiving your funds PayPal will be contacting those who do not submit their details by the 31th of May with instructions to receive a cheque in the mail. However this will incur a 7.5% processing fee deducted from the settlement amount and therefore PayPal only recommends this option to those users who do not currently have a bank account with linked Bank Card.

Please Note that under United States federal law credit cards are not a legally approved method of settlement for Class Action suits and cannot be processed for transferal of funds in this case.

This notice is a summary and does not describe all details of the settlement. For full details of the matters discussed in this notice, you may wish to review the Settlement Agreement dated January 11, 2006 and on file with the Court or visit https://www.paypal.com/settlement/. Complete copies of the Settlement Agreement and all other pleadings and papers filed in the lawsuit are also available for inspection and copying during regular business hours, at the Office of the Clerk of the Court, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, 280 South First Street, San Jose, California 95113.

DATED: May 24, 2006

BY ORDER OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA


Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

It is PayPal's policy to maintain confidentiality over your personal information.
We will NOT sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent.

Thank you for making PayPal a global leader in online payments.

Sincerely,

PayPal


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PayPal is located at 2211 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131.

the email address that I got it from btw is : customer-care@paypal.com and it said something about Funds Recieved or something. Here is my response from the real Paypal after I reported it.

-----Original Message-----
From: spoof@paypal.com
To: div6v@aol.com
Sent: Thu, 25 May 2006 12:17:15 -0500
Subject: RE Q510 - Thank you for your email to PayPal (KMM50689753V77390L0KM) :kf1


Thank you for contacting PayPal about a fraudulent (spoof) email or Web
site. We appreciate you bringing this suspicious email to our attention.

We can confirm that the email you received was not sent by PayPal. Any
website which may be linked to this email is not authorized or used by
PayPal.

Our fraud prevention team is working to disable any website linked to
this email. In the meantime, please do not enter any information into
this website. If you have already done so, you should immediately log
into your PayPal account and change your password, as well as your
security questions and answers. We also recommend that you contact your
bank and credit card company immediately.

If you notice any unauthorized activity on your PayPal account, please
report it to us by following the instructions below:

1. Go to the PayPal site and log in to your account only from the PayPal
website.
2. Click on the Security Center link at the bottom of the page.
3. Click on the 'Unauthorized Transaction' link under the Report a
Problem column.
4. Follow the instructions on this page in order to access the
appropriate form.

Lastly, we recommend taking a few steps to protect yourself from
identity theft:

1. Download the SafetyBar, a toolbar for Outlook and Outlook Express,
which identifies known spoof emails.
2. Get eBay Toolbar with Account Guard which warns you when you're on a
potentially fraudulent (spoof) Web site.
3. Sign up for Equifax Credit Alerts for PayPal Users, a program that
provides an early warning detection system in the event of identity
theft. Find out more by visiting the PayPal Identity Protection Center
at http://www.paypal.com/idprotection.
4. Frequently monitor your PayPal account for suspicious activity.

For additional tips please visit the PayPal Security Center at
http://www.paypal.com/security.

Thank you again for sending us your report. We appreciate your efforts
to keep PayPal safe.

Sincerely,

PayPal
______________________________

Important: PayPal and its representatives will NEVER ask you to reveal
your password. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to this policy. If anyone
claiming to work for PayPal asks for your password under any
circumstances, by email or by phone, please refuse and immediately
contact us via our secure webform online.


************************************************** **********************
This
email is sent to you by the contracting entity to your User Agreement,
either PayPal Inc or PayPal (Europe) Limited. PayPal(Europe) Limited is
authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the UK
as an electronic money institution.

************************************************** *********************


Original Message Follows:
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I got this email from what appeared to from Paypal with the title:
Recieved Funds, about a class action settlement. When I entered my id
and password it asked for an account to send payment to, before I did
though I tried to navigate through the site and it didn't let me. I went
to the real Paypal website immediatly after and changed my password. It
won't let me forward you the email but here is the link
http://updating.redirect.hm:443/
Is there anything else I should do?

-Trung

Wanted to give my ITR buddies a heads up cause I know a lot of you use Paypal to send your funds for them parts! Check out that site before it goes away.http://updating.redirect.hm:443/ You can enter in any crazy email address and any stupid password and you'll get in. Try to navigate through once you enter in the bogus email and password... it won't let you go anywhere! Stay safe.

Alexander

It isn't very difficult to spoof an email address. All you have to look for is the URL of the link that they are trying to send you to. It is usually an IP address followed by some Paypal-Esque directories like

http://127.49.10.15/Paypal/CustomerService/index.php or so.

If it's http://www.paypal.com/xxxxxxx then you can "consider" the email... If it's some odd notice, I would contact paypal first. It isn't uncommon to spoof a URL address bar as well, but the URL they're trying to get you to go to is your first indication as to the legitimacy of the email.

ebelp

As soon as I read, "Congratulations!", that sets off a red flag in my head.

The Tech-1

As soon as I saw

-----Original Message-----
From: spoof@paypal.com

That's bad news right there... scammers.

Jon V

I got $800+ back from Paypal and a class action suit about a year and a half two years ago...

They did put it directly in to my paypal account though...

May be worth contacting PayPal, eigther way...

white rocket

This is TOO weird. I just got a "paypal survey customer service" email from Paypal. Haven't quite read through it yet though. My virus protection labeled it as SPAM . Kinda weird

Lucky-R

i received the same "survey" request from paypal but only because it followed a claim that i recently filed. as long as the questions dont ask for "sensitive" information, it might be legitimate.

damn, someone put in a lot of time planning and writing that bullshit paypal "refund" letter. sadly it sounds so real that some fall for that sh*t

ProjektR

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-----Original Message-----
From: spoof@paypal.com

That's bad news right there... scammers.
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That email addy is actually the one that Paypal tells you to email to and report the fake emails. I got it off the actual Paypal site.

BlueIntegraBoy

iTrader: (5)

If they use the word "cheque", then you know it's a scam. You can obviously tell the scammer is from Canada or Europe.