

| Subject: | Re: Phishing alert |
| From: | Bob Stevens |
| Date: | Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:32:37 -0600 |
"Are these phisherman targeting other listees? Just a heads up in case this is where they latched on to my e-mail address." "Yeah, I got one too in my gmail account, which I only use for the Vanagon list. I'm bettin' we got "harvested" here." About 2 months ago, what I thought was the paypal "anti-fraud team" started sending me "warnings" that someone from Poland, Netherlands and Romania was attempting to access my account. I got 3 of these "warnings" from the address: paypal@admin.com. It was entitled a Fraud Alert in the subject line. It asked me to log into my account and change my password and signin to keep it safe and secure. I didn't of course and sent it to the paypal help address at their site (spoof@paypal.com and webform@paypal.com). Paypal got back to me letting me know someone was phishing. They don't use very good English and their sentence structure is too full of errors because they don't know context phrases and structure very well. It even warns against logging in when requested by those attempting fraud: "Make sure you never provide your password to fraudulent websites." The email they (fraud-squad) generated looked very official and just like something that came from Pay Pal. bob
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