Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/24

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Palpal scam
From: kargue at sympatico.ca (Kevin Argue)
Date: Mon Jan 24 18:12:36 2005

Att'n fellow Luggers- For the benefit of those of us who have never done any
business with Paypal or how it works, thanks for thre heads up. When I
received the message about my account I was most suprised as I had no
account nor had I even tried the service. Thanks guts.

Kevin Argue

> From: Dan C <bladman99@yahoo.ca>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:46:39 -0500
> To: lug@leica-users.org, Minolta@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Leica] OT:  Palpal scam
> 
> Forgive me if this is off-topic, but I just received a very official
> looking email from what appears to be Paypal, informing me that there are
> irregularities in my account, and included a real looking link to click on
> to rectify the problem.
> 
> The email is BOGUS, and if I had actually clicked on the link (which was
> not from paypal at all), it undoubtedly would have asked me to login to my
> account, instantly providing someone with everything they needed to rob me
> blind.
> 
> be careful,
> 
> -dan c.
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