Entry 36029 (Berkeley CSUA MOTD)

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2025/05/24 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular

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2005/2/2 [Computer/Companies/Ebay] UID:36029 Activity:moderate

2/2 I received an email ostensibly from http://paypal.com, saying that my account
has been flagged and asked me to verify my info at 210.221.194.*
I find it very suspicious and I am not sure if I really had a paypal
register under that email addr? Is this real or just phishing?
How could I tell in general?
\_ It's a scam. I've had this happen to me for various banks to which
I do not hold an account to. For example, if it was CitiBank they
would ask you to go to a site called <DEAD>citibanksecurity.com<DEAD> or
something like that where they would ask you to enter your
username, password, and bank account number. But if you try to
resolve citibanksecurity, or whatever fictitious name they use,
it would resolve to something else.
\_ Seconded that it's a scam. If you want to assure yourself, look at
the HTML source of the email. Look at the actual link target. If
it goes to a dotted-decimal IP, HTML-secape-code address,
<DEAD>paypal.com.something-else.com<DEAD>, <DEAD>paypal-something-else.com<DEAD>, or
http://paypal.com@something-else.com you know it's bogus. If you have to
assuage your fears that it might be legit, delete the email and
manually type in http://www.paypal.com and log in to your account like
normal. If they actually have a message for you you should see it
then. But it's definitely a scam.
\_ Scam. Paypal promises that they will never send you an email
with a link in it. No other financial institution should do
this either.
\_ Another useful tip specific to paypal is that the real paypal
mail will always address you by your name, and never as "Dear
Paypal User."

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