Something Phishy I just had a suspicious email in my in-box from what I believe to be a hacker posing with a fake Paypal website asking me to verify my account information. What made me suspicious is that it asked for not only my bank account information (which Paypal would need to know) but it also asked for my ATM card PIN, which they most definitely do not need to know! If any of you use PayPal and you receive that message, do not click the link. Go directly to your web browser, and from there to PayPal's website, and contact their security via email to verify with PayPal that they sent it. Copy and paste the email and send it to them. This is the email that I got
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Unauthorized access to your PayPal account! We recently noticed more attempts to log in to your PayPal account from a foreign IP address. If you accessed your account while traveling, the unusual log in attempts may have been initiated by you. However, if you are the rightfull holder of the account, please visit Paypal as soon as possible to verify your identity: Click here to verify your account You can also verify your account by logging into your PayPal account at https://www.paypal.com/us/ If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to temporaly suspend your account. We ask that you allow at least 72 hours for the case to be investigated and we strongly recommend to verify your account in that time. Thank you for using PayPal! The PayPal Team Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page. To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML, update your preferences here.
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The website link takes you to what looks like PayPal, but its not.

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Catch ya later!  ¶ 8:20 AM