Paypal Sends Scam Email| Paypal Account Has Been Limited
Please be aware when you receive the paypal email which mentioned that your paypal account had been limited due to unauthorized transactions. It might be a scam email just like the MayBank scam email and CIMB scam email that I received several months ago.
How to know whether the email is spam mail or not?
1) Please refer to the image captured above, the email was captured in spam mailbox. Therefore, high posibbility it’s a spam mail where Gmail provider had blocked it from entering your inbox. However, in order to make sure the originality of the email, you should look at the address of email sender. In my case, it shows the sender address <srtv@webssl.com> and obviously it’s not email from paypal company.
2) I don’t understand why we need to download the form attached and open it in a web browser instead of opening it from the link directly? Therefore, I suspect that the attachment contained spyware or trojan which will send your account password to the unknown sender <srtv@webssl.com>. So, be careful about this and don’t even download the attachment.
3) The best way to determine the originality of the email sender is to forward the suspicious email to Paypal company and let them tell you the truth. I believe by taking some precautious measures, we can prevent our important identity info from leaking out to other bad people. Please tell your friends and family members about this scam email so no one will fall into their traps.
So, do you receive any kinds of paypal scam email like this recently? Please share.
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August 24th, 2009 at 11:04 am
How come these things always happen to you?! I’m having paypal, and I’ll be more careful about false paypal email… thank you for sharing!
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August 24th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Benjamincip: Haha…I guess I’m too lucky to attract these spammers and obviously they like to spam/scam me.. Anyway, be more careful and help to inform other people as well to protect our important identity info.
December 16th, 2009 at 4:31 am
thanks buddy for updating me with this
June 14th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
Well, there is a new batch of this type of spam mail being sent out! Today, there was a message – in my AOL spam box. Right after I had completed a paypal transaction, under a different screen name. The subject line was: “One New Message”. The mail content itself was very brief and void of any details as to WHO the sender was -
Your account access is limited because we noticed some problems with your
personal information.
**To update your information, download and complete the form attached to
this message**
Thank you!
The attachment is named “AccountNumberEIGHTNUMBERS.html
OF COURSE, I did NOT download said attachment. I’m 99.99% sure this is SPAM – probably with a worm or virus attached! The senders address is – noreply@webssl.com
June 15th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
@Sandy: Thanks for informing us. Everyone should be more careful when receiving the same email from spammers.