Pay Pal Scam Alert!

[Rat_Pack]

MM & Jeff, I received an email like that about a month ago and ignored it. I have been meaning to send it onto PayPal and let them know. Here is what it looked like:

<font color="blue">Dear PayPal Customer


This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by PayPal to detect inactive customers.

The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in the next 3 months.

Please confirm your email address by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:

Email Address:
Password:


Bank Account


Enter Bank Account #:


OR Credit Card


Enter Credit Card #:





This notification expires January 31, 2003


Thanks for using PayPal!


This PayPal notification was sent to your mailbox. Your PayPal account is set up to receive the PayPal Periodical newsletter and product updates when you create your account. To modify your notification preferences and unsubscribe, go to https://www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI and log in to your account. Changes to your preferences may take several days to be reflected in our mailings. Replies to this email will not be processed.

If you previously asked to be excluded from Providian product offerings and solicitations, they apologize for this e-mail. Every effort was made to ensure that you were excluded from this e-mail. If you do not wish to receive promotional e-mail from Providian, go to http://removeme.providian.com/.

Copyright© 2002 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. </font>

There is a similar scam going but using Ebay account information....................RatPack............ ..

[MotownMadman]

Rat Pack, It looks like the one you recieved was a promotion through Providian Bank to gain access to your information for purposes of sending you a credit card. The one I had posted has origins overseas and appears to be an attempt to gain bank and credit information for purposes of ripping you off. Pay Pal wont send anything to your mailbox which requires any personal information such as passwords or account info, never give that up unless you are actually logging in to Pay Pal's home page. If you notice Pay Pal never asks for any account info after signing up, just your password to gain access to your account. I am sure Pay Pal did not authorize Providian Bank to use their name as a means of marketing their credit cards, I would report it to Pay Pal. My sister works for Ebay, I have her on top of this scam attempt.
Thanks,
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