Now that's cheeky
27 Nov 2003 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karohemdThis is probably the virus ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hyperabi was warning about.
Got this
Subject:
YOUR PAYPAL.COM ACCOUNT EXPIRES
Date:
Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:11:53 +0000
From:
"PayPal.com" <donotreply@paypal.com>
To:
my email address
Dear PayPal member,
PayPal would like to inform you about some important information regarding your PayPal account.
This account, which is associated with the email address
my email address
will be expiring within five business days. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may
cause, but this is occurring because all of our customers are required to update their account
settings with their personal information.
We are taking these actions because we are implementing a new security policy on our website to
insure everyone's absolute privacy. To avoid any interruption in PayPal services then you will need
to run the application that we have sent with this email (see attachment) and follow the
instructions. Please do not send your personal information through email, as it will not be as
secure.
IMPORTANT! If you do not update your information with our secure application within the next five
business days then we will be forced to deactivate your account and you will not be able to use
your PayPal account any longer. It is strongly recommended that you take a few minutes out of your
busy day and complete this now.
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE VIA EMAIL! This mail is sent by an automated message system and the
reply will not be received.
Thank you for using PayPal.
hafhafoa
Name:
www.paypal.com.scr
Type:
Screen Saver (application/x-unknown-content-type-scrfile)
Encoding:
base64
from a faked paypal account, saying my paypal account would expire and I needed to run the attached program (a .scr) to update it.
Of course, I'm not stupid but your average email user might well fall for it...
hyperabi was warning about.Got this
Subject:
YOUR PAYPAL.COM ACCOUNT EXPIRES
Date:
Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:11:53 +0000
From:
"PayPal.com" <donotreply@paypal.com>
To:
my email address
Dear PayPal member,
PayPal would like to inform you about some important information regarding your PayPal account.
This account, which is associated with the email address
my email address
will be expiring within five business days. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may
cause, but this is occurring because all of our customers are required to update their account
settings with their personal information.
We are taking these actions because we are implementing a new security policy on our website to
insure everyone's absolute privacy. To avoid any interruption in PayPal services then you will need
to run the application that we have sent with this email (see attachment) and follow the
instructions. Please do not send your personal information through email, as it will not be as
secure.
IMPORTANT! If you do not update your information with our secure application within the next five
business days then we will be forced to deactivate your account and you will not be able to use
your PayPal account any longer. It is strongly recommended that you take a few minutes out of your
busy day and complete this now.
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE VIA EMAIL! This mail is sent by an automated message system and the
reply will not be received.
Thank you for using PayPal.
hafhafoa
Name:
www.paypal.com.scr
Type:
Screen Saver (application/x-unknown-content-type-scrfile)
Encoding:
base64
from a faked paypal account, saying my paypal account would expire and I needed to run the attached program (a .scr) to update it.
Of course, I'm not stupid but your average email user might well fall for it...
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 27/11/03 12:04 pm (UTC)i knew it was a virus cause wrong email address for my paypal account, and had the *.scr attachement
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Date: 27/11/03 12:36 pm (UTC)gits. fortunately I'm not thick either.
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Date: 27/11/03 12:38 pm (UTC)Paypal don't send out mails like that.
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Date: 27/11/03 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 27/11/03 01:24 pm (UTC)But just a glance at the attachment suffix shiuld give it away.. why would Pay Pal send you a screensaver...
Nathan, The Toxic Pixie
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Date: 27/11/03 01:43 pm (UTC)You know that, I know that, I'm sure everyone on my friends list knows that but if there are people who click on I wuv you very much emails, there will definitely be some who click on this.
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Date: 27/11/03 01:56 pm (UTC)*grin*
Nathan, The Toxic Pixie
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Date: 28/11/03 08:41 am (UTC)Then they could sned something out to all their users warning them, or put something on their website like LJ have done in the past.
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Date: 28/11/03 09:45 am (UTC)