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Message-ID: <20040319143324.GG290@ngolde.de>
From: nion at gmx.net (Nico Golde)
Subject: Is this a paypal scam?

Hallo Alerta,

* Alerta Redsegura <alerta@...segura.com> [2004-03-19 14:51]:
> >http://218.62.43.30/verify.html
> 
> > If this is a scam, then maybe paypal has some employees
> > passing new account info outside the company.
> > -jamie-
> 
> Indeed, Paypal e-mail scams started in 2002 I think.
> 
> In regards to employees passing new acct info, I have never had a paypal
> account and have received several times this type of scam mail.
> 
> I would suggest you to contact Paypal and send them a full copy of the email
> (as an attachment, not just re-send the e-mail, since it would drop some
> headers).

I think he can make an whois question to the given ip and look if this
is an official paypal host.
regards nico
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