Do You Have A Paypal Account?

Then be very wary if you get an email such as this one:

Dear Member,

Your PayPal account has expired.

You must renew it immediately or your account will be closed.

If you intend to use this service in the future, you must take action at once!

To continue click here, login to your PayPal account and follow the steps.

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a respons(e). For assistence, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

PayPal Email ID #

Of course the "link that they want you to click on does not go to the paypal site - it goes somewhere else.

If you have any doubts about your paypal account then you should contact paypal directly - they have a very secure website.

Cookies?

Here is a copy of a recent email that I got:

Hi

A few months back, ~ was approached by an advertiser, offered lots of $$$, and asked to include a spyware cookie on all of our member sites. We refused on the spot.

You install (our service) to track visitors to your site NOT to open yourself and your visitors up to being spied upon by phantom advertising corporations.

It appears, however, that other players in the world of webstats were happy to take up this offer.

We were shocked to discover just today that another well known stats provider is allowing up to 9 cookies to be installed in the browser of every visitor that hits one of their member websites. This means that the provider is making money by transmitting data on you and your visitors to a third party advertiser. Not only that, but to add insult to injury, the cookies are causing the member websites to load very slowly too.

In light of this, (we) wants to assure you that we track your visitors for you, only you and not any one else.

Foreclosure101: Be Careful Of Spam!

Here is a recent blog post that I posted to my blog about foreclosures:

Foreclosure101: Be Careful Of Spam!

Be Careful of Spam

We Suspect Unauthorized ATM Activity On Your Account!

Here is a copy of a recent email that I received:

Dear ~,

We recently reviewed your account, and we suspect an unauthorized ATM based transaction. Therefore as a preventive measure we will temporary limit your access to sensitive Abbey features.

To ensure that your account is not compromised, please login to your Abbey Online Banking and verify your identity to prevent deactivation.

SERVICE: Abbey Online Banking.

What you need to do:

- Go to: Abbey Online Banking

- Login to Online Banking.

Thanks for your patience.

Sincerely,

Abbey National Centre

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For any inquiries, contact Customer Service.

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Of course I have never heard of this place before!

But I post it here so that you can see that this is just yet another example of attempts to get one's account information.

If you get any kind of email like this and you DL have an account with the company in question - DO NOT RESPOND BY CLICKING ON ANY OF THE LINKS THAT ARE PROVIDED!

Call the company itself and find out for sure whether or not there is something wrong with your account - whether it be your banking account or some other company that you have a financial account with!