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Paypal Email Scam

adm1n — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:36:32 -0600

Along with poor spelling, the below has other obvious red flags like:
The click here url is to totalbabes.tv
this is probably just a traffic generating scam.
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PayPal is constantly working to ensure security by regularly screening the accounts is our system. We recently reviewed your account, and we need more information to help How can I restore my account access ?

..Click Here, login and complete the nexte step ro "Remove Limitations."........

eBay Payment scam

brewski — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:38:02 -0600

This one almost got me, as I had done some purchasing on eBay, though not at this amount. Looking at the links they want you to click on is a key to figuring out these scams. Hold your mouse over the link and you should see the link. If it is long like this:
www.aol.com/ams/clickThruRedirect.adp?1073762100,
2147779757x2147568413,http://www.austromex.com.mx/~caxpe/
redirect.to/www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscrcmd=_login-submit/
Paypal.dllSignInpUserId=co=partnerId=siteid=0pageType=1pa=
UsingSSL_1bhowgif_favoritnav_errmsg/index.html

Considering this "came" from eBay, why would it have an AOL address.

Ebay user fake

brewski — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:48:13 -0600

I received an official looking email "from" ebay today with the following text:
Dear armadefoc,

OK as....., i will to report you to ebay for this, 2 months have passed and yet no word from you, this is my final warning, you either respond and let me know the status or simply support the consequences for your action. Bye.

First, I'm not armadefoc. Second, I haven't purchased anything from ebay in a long time.

Be careful.