I got this in my email the other day. While I haven't yet gotten through to the folks at paypal.. it'll almost certainly just be a confirmation of what every bone in my body is already telling me. Seeing how Caedes Cadre members use paypal, at the very least to contribute to the site, I thought this would be a useful post in Non-art, as opposed to Offtopic.
Please, please, please don't fall for traps like this:
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Dear PayPal customer,
During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and
verification procedure we have detected a slight error in your
billing information.
This might be due to the following reasons:
1. A recent change in your personal information (ie. change of
address, email address)
2. An inability to accurately verify your selected option of
payment due to an internal error within our systems.
Please verify your information. To do this we have attached a
form to this email. Please download the form and follow the
instructions on your screen.
NOTE: The form needs to be opened in a modern browser which has
javascript enabled (ex: Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3, Safari 3,
Opera 9)
We are requesting this information to verify and protect your
identity. This is in order to prevent the illegal activity of
PayPal accounts.
Please do not reply to this email.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have
caused. Sincerely, PayPal Security Team.
Please, even if you don't visit my gallery, check out my "Faves".I've left them intact since day "1", and would like it if every image there got the attention they deserved.
Please, please, please don't fall for traps like this:
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Dear PayPal customer,
During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and
verification procedure we have detected a slight error in your
billing information.
This might be due to the following reasons:
1. A recent change in your personal information (ie. change of
address, email address)
2. An inability to accurately verify your selected option of
payment due to an internal error within our systems.
Please verify your information. To do this we have attached a
form to this email. Please download the form and follow the
instructions on your screen.
NOTE: The form needs to be opened in a modern browser which has
javascript enabled (ex: Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3, Safari 3,
Opera 9)
We are requesting this information to verify and protect your
identity. This is in order to prevent the illegal activity of
PayPal accounts.
Please do not reply to this email.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have
caused. Sincerely, PayPal Security Team.
PayPal Email ID PP8361117