R.I.P. Scout26
do-notreply@dept-amazon.com11:41 AM (1 hour ago)to me Dear Amazon User We found out that your Amazon Billing information's records are out of date.This requires an update of your billing information.Please take several minutes from your online experience and update your billing records.You will not have any problems in future with our online services. However, your refusal to update your records will be finished in your account termination. Please update your records right now. As you have updated your account records your Amazon session will not be interrupted. Please click the link below to update your billing records: click here Sincerely, 2014 Amazon.Inc All Rights Reserved.
However, your refusal to update your records will be finished in your account termination.
Being finished in your account termination sounds painful.Brad
I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun.
If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question.
Nigerians are improving their grammar and spelling.
Funny, I was just thinking that for income enhancement, I could offer editing services to internet scammers. It's a gold mine!
Based on Address our customers by their first and last name or business name oftheir PayPal accountthis must be a spoof message as well. Come on, fellas. At least follow your own pronouncements, OK? Either that or reset your canned responses so that the sender's name is automatically picked out and inserted. How hard can that be? In a message dated 5/9/2014 8:24:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, spoof@paypal.com writes:Dear , [sic - as in it was blank in the original]Thank you for being a proactive contributor by reporting suspicious-looking emails to PayPal's Abuse Department. Our security team is working to identify if the email you forwarded to us is a malicious email.Paypal Will Always:• Address our customers by their first and last name or business name oftheir PayPal accountPaypal Will Never:• Send an email to: "Undisclosed Recipients" or more than one email address• Ask you to download a form or file to resolve an issue• Ask in an email to verify an account using Personal Information such as Name, Date of Birth, Driver's License, or Address• Ask in an email to verify an account using Bank Account Information such as Bank Name, Routing Number, or Bank Account PIN Number• Ask in an email to verify an account using Credit Card Information such as Credit Card Number or Type, Expiration Date, ATM PIN Number, or CVV2 Security Code• Ask for your full credit card number without displaying the type of card and the last two digits• Ask you for your full bank account number without displaying your bankname, type of account (Checking/Savings) and the last two digits• Ask you for your security question answers without displaying each security question you created• Ask you to ship an item, pay a shipping fee, send a Western Union Money Transfer, or provide a tracking number before the payment receivedis available in your transaction historyREAD!Any time you receive an email about changes to your PayPal account, the safest way to confirm the email's validity is to log in to your PayPal account where any of the activity reported in the email will be available to view. DO NOT USE THE LINKS IN THE EMAIL RECEIVED TO VISIT THE PAYPAL WEBSITE. Instead, enter www.paypal.com into your browser to log in to your account.What is a phishing email?You may have received an email falsely claiming to be from PayPal or another known entity. This is called "phishing" because the sender is "fishing" for your personal data. The goal is to trick you into clickingthrough to a fake or "spoofed" website, or into calling a bogus customerservice number where they can collect and steal your sensitive personal or financial information.We will carefully review the content reported to us to certify that the content is legitimate. We will contact you if we need any additional information for investigating the matter. Please take note to the security tips provided above as they may help to answer any questions that you may have about the email you are reporting to us.Help! I responded to a phishing email!If you have responded to a phishing email and provided any personal information, or if you think someone has used your account without permission, you should immediately change your password and security questions.You should also report it to PayPal immediately and we'll help protect you as much as possible.1. Open a new browser and type in www.paypal.com.2. Log in to your PayPal account.3. Click "Security and Protection" near the top of the page.4. Click "Identify a problem."5. Click "I think someone may be using my account without permission." 6. Click "Unauthorized Account Activity."Thank you for your help making a difference.Every email counts. By forwarding a suspicious-looking email to spoof@paypal.com, you have helped keep yourself and others safe from identity theft.Thanks, The PayPal Team***********************************************************************Please do not reply to this email. If you need to follow up, please follow the steps above to access your account and utilize the Contact Usresources from our site.***********************************************************************
Caught not only a PayPal spoof, but PayPal not following their own protocols.Still no response to calling them on the latter.{giant block of poorly formatted text}stay safe.
Spelling errors, grammar errors, tortured phrasing, sentences that simply don't make sense, a completely generic greeting when they have your information on file... Yeah, it's legitimate!
Hawkmoon - Never underestimate another person's capacity for stupidity. Any time you think someone can't possibly be that dumb ... they'll prove you wrong.
Viking - The problem with the modern world is that there aren't really any predators eating stupid people.
Spelling errors, grammar errors, tortured phrasing, sentences that simply don't make sense, a completely generic greeting when they have your information on file...
That describes just about every email I receive from family members.
Your family is royalty from Nigeria?stay safe.
Skid wins the internet for the day!
For sale: one internet. $250,000,000.00 OBO.stay safe.
Good day sir. I am interested in the item you are selling. I will send you a cashiers checq. Please having the item ready for my associate to aquire promptly.
I offer you some pocket lint and a canceled stamp.
That being the case, the winning offer of is accepted.Please meet me in the parking lot of the abandoned warehouse at 11:57 PM sharply tonight. Do not be alarmed if I bring some friends with me, as we are planning to take the proceeds of the transaction and head out to party immediately afterwards.
Hi !!This is Maurice from the Microsoft Computer Internet Center, and your computers are sending out the bad datas.
