Paypal - Your Account Has Been Limited! NOT!

by Brent Stangel

Posted: 11 years ago 22 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

So I got this email today. A quick check with PP just to confirm it's fake.

According to PP, they will always use your first and last name or the business name associated with your account.

This thing looks real and has PP address, logo and website but the update button resolves to globaldovale.com.br which also looks very real.

Heads up!

Email:
"Notice of Policy Updates
Dear Customer,

Some information on your account appears to be missing or incorrect.
Please update your information promptly so that you can continue to enjoy
all the benefits of your PayPal account.
If you don't update your information within 37 days, we'll limit what you can do with your PayPal account.

Update Your Account

If you need help logging in, go to our Help Center by clicking the Help link located in the upper right-hand corner of any PayPal page. .

Sincerely,

PayPal

Please do not reply to this email. We are unable to respond to inquiries sent to this address. For immediate answers to your questions, visit our Help Center by clicking "Help" at the top of any PayPal page.

Copyright © 2013 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. PayPal is located at 2211 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131."

Also, you can report fake PP emails to spoof@paypal.com

#account #fake #limited #paypal

Neil Morgan 11 years ago

If I had a pound (even a dollar would do) for every time I received that fake email, I would be retired and living somewhere extremely sunny.

A quick check to begin with - PayPal emails always address you by your name, not "Customer" or other generic words.

Then, of course, you should always check that the links do lead to PayPal.com. Better still, don't click any links and log in using a browser bookmark. You can be sure that if your account has been limited, it will be VERY obvious when you get into your account.

Cheers,

Neil
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- RogueOne 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Neil Morgan
  
  If I had a pound (even a dollar would do) for every time I received that fake email, I would be retired and living somewhere extremely sunny.
  
  I've never gotten one in five years with PP.
  
  Guess I'm being redundant.
  
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  Daniel Evans 11 years ago
  
  Common as viagra.
  
  Just bin em'. It's not even worth giving the heads up anymore.
  
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Greedy 11 years ago

I get these things all time.

Any email address I have post online that isn't a gmail account.
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rmolina88 11 years ago

I've been getting these for over a decade now and I still can't believe how many people actually fall for them. :rolleyes:
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LexiB 11 years ago

I get them too. It's pretty common I guess unfortunately. I called Paypal the first time just to make sure they didn't need any more information from me and everything was cool with my account. They said everything was fine. Since then I just ignore them.

I've found that paypal usually calls me when they need something. They did that when they needed me to put my social in. They just called and ask, I gave it and it was done.
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franktwin 11 years ago

They come in all the time, the best way to combat them is to send them back directly to paypal.... Spoof@paypal.com they have a security team in place knocking these scammers down..
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Vadimarket 11 years ago

Umm....

But srsly this scam is sooooo 2008.

OBVIOUSLY, the real PP will address you by your full name and not by "Dear Costumer" "Dear Member" etc. Just like any other bank.

If you fall for this in this day and age, then there is a Nigerian prince waiting, who wants to send you 10000000$.

UPD: Oh, and the real PP always has a green check mark next to every email, and it NEVER appears in a spam folder...just sayin
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- kindsvater 11 years ago
  
  If PayPal didn't limit so many accounts for all types of reasons this wouldn't be so believable.
  
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  WillR 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by kindsvater
  
  If PayPal didn't limit so many accounts for all types of reasons this wouldn't be so believable.
  
  Lost of people win the lottery, it still doesn't mean I fall for lottery emails from Nigeria. A bit of common sense needs to come into play here.
  
  We have had it beaten into us the last few years that if you receive an email like that you go and login to your account and see if it's limited. 99% of the cases your account will be fine.
  
  Scams only work if you let them. You need to have an attitude of guilty before proven innocent on the Internet -- otherwise it will chew you up and spit you out.
  
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  RogueOne 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by WillR
  
  If you receive an email like that you go and login to your account and see if it's limited. 99% of the cases your account will be fine.
  
  That's exactly what I did. I was just surprised how real it was.
  
  I can see a lot of people falling for it.
  
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- RogueOne 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Vadimarket
  
  But srsly this scam is sooooo 2008.
  
  I've been selling through PP for five years. I have dozens of email addys. I get uncountable amounts of spam and I've never seen this one before.
  
  So thanks for your helpful post but maybe everyone isn't as "in the know" as you.
  
  Better to warn people who know, than not warn people (like me before today) who don't.
  
  Just sayin...
  
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  RogueOne 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by BIG Mike
  
  and yes, they can and do go to the spam folder.
  
  Mine didn't go to the spam folder.
  
  It appeared like so many other PP emails, complete with service@Paypal.
  
  It also showed up right after I had increased activity, and made some ebay purchases for the first time in quite some time.
  
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CrisisCore08 11 years ago

It looks real,if I have gotten this I might have fallen for this and the funny part is that I know all about this scam(Not that I ever scamed anyone).I will be more carful now.
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salegurus 11 years ago

Nothing new, get them all the time...
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- Alton Hargrave 11 years ago
  
  Although many of us get these, I think it is good that you brought it up because there are surely some people here that may not realize it is a scam.
  
  You should never answer emails that seek to update your accounts. Be very suspicious of any emails in fact, or you may spend the next two days rebuilding your computer. Not a fun job. I know. I have done it.
  
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  AprilCT 11 years ago
  
  I get all kinds of emails from Paypal in a lot of different email accounts. I just pitch the darn things into spam and don't bother to open them. Some days the spam folders are already full of emails from other dirtbag spammers that didn't make it through the filter. Amazing how many problems with bank accounts or checking accounts I never opened!
  
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- Alton Hargrave 11 years ago
  
  Although many of us get these, I think it is good that you brought it up because there are surely some people here that may not realize it is a scam.
  
  You should never answer emails that seek to update your accounts. Be very suspicious of any emails in fact, or you may spend the next two days rebuilding your computer. Not a fun job. I know. I have done it.
  
  I gotta go. I just got an email from some sexy Russian woman that wants me. (She must be blind!)
  
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art72 11 years ago

Thanks for the heads up!

Art
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Jackson Tan 11 years ago

LOL. before I never seen this email before but I did see the REAL one that limited my PP.. Gosh.. so troublesome to get it back.. but finally I did after trips to their offices and overseas phone calls..
Still, thanks for the tip!

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- RimaNaj2011 11 years ago
  
  Yeah I have been getting those emails a bunch of times recently. I noticed the domain it was sent from wasn't paypal.com so that's how I figured it was trash.
  
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BudaBrit 11 years ago

The English is wrong. Only slightly, but it's still wrong. Paypal check their emails and they always come with perfect grammar.

They would never say: Some information on your account appears to be missing or incorrect.

That's just bad. Surely they would say: Your account information is out of date...

Or something like that.
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