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Rasputin
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23 Feb (17 hours ago)
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 February 25, 2008.

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:
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Thank You.
PayPal Update Team

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.



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I got this e-mail today couple of dodgy things about it first of all it comes from a yahoo address, second is that the copy right is out of date. I did however lick on the link as this is on my laptop which is running linux and never I repeat never gets any Bank Details or any of the such inputed on it, just gets used for reading this forum and Ogame fleetsaving and watching movies, anyway Firefox told me that the website is a fake , it did however highjack my browser and I had to restart. I love that Linux is safe on the net :D
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Post by Clingy »

Raz, I think all of us here are aware of phishing emails by now.....at work we get at least one for every bank or financial institution every day. Most are way more professional that this one, and clearly there are still some ignorant people out there falling for it.
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Post by Myocardial Infarction »

1/3 of my work fell for the last network intrusion test they ran at my work, and so far I'm the only one to report anything suspicious :lol:
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