Clever Spam

This one was actually quite well done. No obvious misspellings and very official looking

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Subject: Notification of Limited Account Access
From: "PayPal" <[email protected]>

Dear PayPal Member,

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the
PayPal system.
We recently noticed the following issue on your account:

We would like to ensure that your account was not accessed by an
unauthorized third party. Because protecting the security of your account
is our primary concern, we have limited access to sensitive PayPal account
features. We understand that this may be an inconvenience but please
understand that this temporary limitation is for your protection.

For your protection, we have limited access to your account until
additional security measures can be completed. We apologize for any
inconvenience this may cause.

To review your account and restore your access, please visit PayPal as soon as possible:

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand
that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your
account. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department


PayPal Email ID PP521
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Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be
answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the
'Help' link in the header of any page.

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Note that the link above actually points to
"http://www.paypal.com%20cgi-bin%20webscr%20cmd--secure-amp-sh-u%20%20https.spamfilter.footgasm.com/https/www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr_cmd=_login-run/index.html"

links disabled for any of who would be foolish enough to randomly click at anything blue and underlined

Quite clever, that might fool some of the better among us. I've just always told my parents, if it doesn't have your name on it, delete it.

footgasm? ew.

That stood out to you too?

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Originally Posted by PAlexC

footgasm? ew.

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Don't knock it till you've tried it... :hubba: ;)

iv seen some videos where a girl and a guy well lets just say i'd let it happen just to see how it went.

I get tons of these letters,
I've started getting them around a year ago. At first it was Washington Mutual, then there was Fleet, then e-bay now PayPal. Darn spammers!