Paypal phishers on the scopeI have gotten three emails withen the last 24 hours and they go like this:
Dear valued PayPal® member:
PayPal® is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.
Recently, our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved. This is a fraud prevention measure meant to ensure that your account is not compromised.
In order to secure your account and quickly restore full access, we may require some specific information from you for the following reason:
We would like to ensure that your account was not accessed by an unauthorized third party. Because protecting the security of your account is our primary concern, we have limited access to sensitive PayPal account features. We understand that this may be an inconvenience but please understand that this temporary limitation is for your protection.
Case ID Number: PP-040-187-541
We encourage you to log in and restore full access as soon as possible.
Should access to your account remain limited for an extended period of
time, it may result in further limitations on the use of your account.
However, failure to restore your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before January 31, 2005.
Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session will not be interrupted and will continue as normalThe target wants you to go to a site to enter your info at a web address like http://blah/verify/Verify.htm. Don't do it.
And if you want to hack them, they are pretty vulnerable boxes. Addresses so far are:
67.155.153.6
209.70.126.13
203.59.237.198
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