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Tusker
26th July 2006, 03:31 PM
Beware anyone with paypal

A business I've got a share in has just received an email, to update their paypal account.

i.e. give some details.

It looks very convincing. It appears to come from support@paypal.com.

But they can't fool me.. we don't use paypal!

Regards
Max P

DirtyDawg
26th July 2006, 03:33 PM
Check your staff buddy someone may have a hand in the till:nazilock:

Phoenix
26th July 2006, 03:43 PM
Nah, they are the same as the ones you get that look like they come from e-bay or the banks, just all scams.

Tusker
26th July 2006, 04:15 PM
Yep we don't have merchant facilities with them.

It was very cleverly done.

Regards
Max P

abaddonxi
26th July 2006, 09:09 PM
I use thunderbird as a mail browser, it shows up where the links go to at the bottom of the page. It gets pretty easy to tell when the link doesn't go to an authoritative paypal address.

Somehow they never make all the links work properly.

Cheers
Simon