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Subject:Paypal Fraud - NVC, OT
From:80 Westy Pokey
Date:Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:40:39 -0500

Sorry for the off topic post. I know a lot of us cyber
vanagon owners use eBay and Paypal so I thought this would
be for the "greater good".

I want to pass on a warning about Papal e-mail fraud. I got
an e-mail that looks like it was from PayPal, but the text
of which is actually an image. When you click on it it takes
you to what looks to be a spoofed Paypal site.

For you computer geeks it takes you to a URL that starts out:
http://www.paypal.com.cgi-bin.webscr.cmd=ravform@ (then an
IP address)
The key is this @ symbol and the IP address, it basically
tells your browser to ignore everything to the left and go
to the IP address, so it LOOKS like you are going to Paypal
but you are not.

I have already sent the original e-mail to PayPal and
reported the potential fraud to customer service.

Be Careful!
Chris

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