Alert- Pay Pal Email Scam

ALERT - PayPal Email SCAM

If you recently received an email from PayPal with the subject "Regular Maintenance - Review Your Account Details" you may be the target of a scam.

The email looks very official including the PayPal logo, but it is a an example of a 'phishing' email and is fake. If you click the included link you will be taken to a fake or 'spoofed' site. Anything you type on that page, including your Pay Pal account information will be stolen.

The body of the message includes this information:

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It has come to our attention that your PayPal billing information is out of date and needs to be updated. If you could take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience to update your billing information, you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
To update your billing records click on the following link:http://221.8.68.176/icons/small/ps1.gif/www.paypal.com/us/(The link really goes to a hidden IP address, not Paypal)
This new security issue will help us continue to offer PayPal as a secure and cost-effective payment service. We appreciate your cooperation and assistance.If you chose to ignore our request, you leave us no chose but to temporally suspend your account.

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If you received an email like this, just delete it and you should be fine. If you responded to it and provided any account information, you should immediately changed your PayPal login information, and contact PayPal by forwarding the email to spoof@paypal.com. You can visit PayPal's Security Center at https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_security-center-outside.

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