paypal forgery

Beware of this e-mail from supposedly paypal verification.

Dear PayPal User


Dear PayPal User, For security purposes your account has been randomly chosen for verification.
To verify your account information we are asking you to provide us with all the data we are requesting.
Otherwise we will not be able to verify your identity and access to your account will be denied by our security department at once :


https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_verify-run

To make sure you can use your PayPal account the next time you make a purchase,
all you need to do is confirm or not your email address.
If your email program has problems with hypertext links,
you may also confirm your email address by logging in to your account.

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance,
log in to your PayPal account and click thec Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.


PayPal Email ID PP007 .


this links to a paypal forgery page identical in every way to original paypal site

Pffft .. I get AT LEAST 5-6 of those every week. Fortunately, I don't see them because they go straight to my trash bin ... Thank you Thunderbird for being so SPAM efficient!

Most of us have gotten those. However, it was very thoughtful of you to post a reminder. There may be a few newbies that haven't come up against this. Thanks again.

Yea Thunderbord rocks. Love it.

Zone Alarms rocks too! I have never seen an spam email in my inbox for over 6months.

Just gmail for me. I do get them though. I always visit sites like paypal, my bank etc through the url, typed into my address bar. That way I know I've not been linked to some dodgy subdomain where a teenager from outer bolivia is going to steal my CC details.

Pete.

Lol.. Dont go there with Gmail. I get some horrible spam mail directed into that account. Roughly 150 per day!

I get none at all to my gmail account, strange. Speak to google.

Pete.

I think Google just dumps all its spam emails on me. There really isnt any point in me doing it as i just use that account for Adsense and not the mail.