PayPal fishing email! Check it out...

The link actually goes to the website http://www.paypalsecurityalerts.biz/...reinfo/paypa/l

One of the best ways I can find to tell what is a PayPal phishing scam and what is not is to see if your name is actually listed in the email. However I never use the links sent to me in a PayPal email, I always go to Welcome - PayPal directly just to make sure .

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Dear valued PayPal® member:


It has come to our attention that your PayPal® account information needs to be
updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes
out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into
any future problems with the online service.

However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before September 28, 2006.

Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal® session will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal.
To update your PayPal® records click on the following link:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

Thank You.
PayPal® UPDATE TEAM &nbsp
Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal® will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.
Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside

Alex

Yeah I've got many of these types of emails. I can totally see how some people get sucked into them

You can forward that email to spoof@paypal.com so they can check it out. Of course, you'll get a message back that tells more about phishing and the scams. But maybe one of these days the forwarded email might get someone caught.

Dave