This was in my mail this morning. 'About to be expired???'

From: "PayPal.com" Save Address | Headers
To : Info
CC :
Date : Wed, 17 Dec 2003 06:17:40 -0500
Subject : IMPORTANT cyvcusuu
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Dear PayPal member,

We regret to inform you that your account is about to be expired in next five business days. To avoid suspension of your account you have to reactivate it by providing us with your personal information.

To update your personal profile and continue using PayPal services you have to run the attached application to this email. Just run it and follow the instructions.

IMPORTANT! If you ignore this alert, your account will be suspended in next five business days and you will not be able to use PayPal anymore.

Thank you for using PayPal.


cyvcusuu

www.paypal.com.pif (Binary attachment)

That's the scam e-mail.

The grammar (writing style) is quite poor in the text - obviously not a professional document even if you did not know about the scam method.

SCAM!!!!

Paypal does not email applications for you to use to update your account. If you can't go their web site and update your info, DON'T!

I've received emails from Paypal telling me that my card was about to or had expired, and they always say go to the web site to update.

I got that email too. Laughed. I could see how a lot of people fall for it though.

But if you send me your credit card number and expiration date I can ensure they never send it to you again!

check's in the mail!

Forward it to scams@paypal.com you will get a nice autoresponce from them telling you it's a scam.

I thought it was "spoof@paypal.com" (you can see this at Paypal's Security Statement)
Not that anyone does anything about these, but I do recommend you forward all these scams/spoofs on to ebay (spoof@ebay.com) and paypal, and make sure you give as much header information as possible (so they can see where it really comes from).

Here is what paypal says:




There are more and more of these nowadays - makes you wonder who has been sucked in.

darn scammers!