posted on April 7, 2001 11:39:03 PM new
I just got this email from PayPal and don't quite understand what it means - it is coming from PayPal so it must be legit! I tried to find a email address to forward this back to PP but couldn't find one. This is kind of creepy - did anyone else get this? There was a blue link on my email to click on but it isn't showing up here when I cut and pasted.
I didn't click on the link but went to the web site and it looked fine!
Hello PayPal user. Our PayPal web site has terminated and all of the records we had were lost. We would appreciate it if you went to the new temporary PayPal web site and logged in so our records will be up to date. Thank You. New PayPal web site.
Note: If your email does not contain a hyperlink, then copy and paste the link provided in this mail.
Please be very careful when dealing with a situation like this. Just because the email seems to have a 'paypal.com' net address does not mean it is from PayPal. There are numerous ways to false mask email addresses, or to do a forward intercept. I would forward the email to a known legit PalPal customer service address and let them respond to it. Do you not think that if PayPal had a catestophic (sp) crash and needed to obtain data from it's users there would have not been a major announcement in the press and PC community?
posted on April 8, 2001 03:40:26 AM new
paypaldamon has warned about this numerous times. they are trying to get your paypal logo and password. just delete it.
I use paypal and did not get that email. I logged onto my paypal account just now, all is fine.
posted on April 8, 2001 03:40:26 AM new
paypaldamon has warned about this numerous times. they are trying to get your paypal logo and password. just delete it.
I use paypal and did not get that email. I logged onto my paypal account just now, all is fine.
posted on April 8, 2001 11:49:08 AM new
Older version of netscape (and I presume IE) used to be able to spoof an email address in about 10 seconds. I don't know if they have changed this or not. All you had to do was go into the config screen and enter the email address you wnated to spoof and send the note.
I have written perl scripts that generate HTML forms that allow me to enter the TO:, FROM:, SUBJECT:, and REPLY TO: headers/fields and send the note from any smtp server that accepts relays. As an email administrator, I needed it to unsubscribe past employees from mailing lists.
