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SCAM ALERT: PayPal email changed
There are a large number of scam emails circulating at the moment claiming to be from PayPal and that a new email has been added to your account and inviting you to click on a link to restore the original account email. This is a live and active threat currently running (as of 16:24 BST, 26th July 2011).
The domain names used by the scammers so far have included paypalinfo.com (an example including this email is shown below) and paypalf.com
Hovering the mouse over the link reveals it’s destination…. which far from being a server at PayPal is in reality part of some low life scammers network in China trying to con people into entering their PayPal details so the scammers can rip them off.
http://219.138.170.167/setting.files/www/index.html
The part of the URL in red is direct to the scammers computer and the part in blue, what the scammers want you to run, not only could this be a phishing attempt, it could create all sorts of other chaos on your computer.
Please share this alert with friends and family
Thanks for the info on the paypal scam, they must have read your blog because they have changed it slightly. I don know if you want to update on this, but instead of a link in the page, it has a form to open. I dread to think what that might do.
thanks again
Rob
They are always making minor changes to scams.. It would be almost impossible to announce every single variant of every scam unless you had a dozen or so people doing nothing but reporting scams!
Elliott