I just received the below email:
 
Dear PayPal Member!

Attention! Your PayPal account has been violated!

Someone with ip address 149.225.126.87 tried to access your personal account!

Please click the link below and enter your account information to confirm that you are not currently away. You have 3 days to confirm account information or your account will be locked.

Click here to activate your account
 



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I sent them all my info right away.. all my credit card numbers, my social security number and my home and work address, as well as my checking and savings account numbers...
I sure am glad they brought this to my attention so quickly.... man, that could have cost me alot of money......  

Looks like you had a narrow escape there!!

you gave them the deed to your house, your car ownership, your driver's license, and an IOU for your firstborn, though, right? man. wouldn't want those getting into the wrong hands!

I sure hope you made sure that PayPal was actually sending you that and not somebody who knows how to look like PayPal.

ok, let me just put this in for the record, so noone gets confused and actually does this..If you receive an email from paypal, it will have your REAL NAME at the header, not Dear paypal member, this thread is of course in good humor... I would hope that if anyone gets these emails they foward them to spoof@paypal.com that way they can attmept to track down and prosecute the individuals phishing for info.....
  
   with that said.....
               Maybe I should sign a power of attorney and give it to them too... just in case...

Yeah you definately got to watch yourself with that kinda stuff. A friend of mine tried to by an audio receiver off ebay, needless to say, the guy took his money and skipped town leaving my buddy's walet $150 lighter with no receiver to show for it. Turns out this guys a pretty big time criminal and drug dealer or somthing and this isn't the first time hes done this.

Why didnt they just say

STAND AND DELIVER!!!!!!!!

 

jt