Mr. Pinball's Blacklist--Index of Scammers--Individual Email for Scammer--"PayPal" <webform@intl.paypal.com>

Scammer email posted Thu Dec 23 14:58:57 2010

Subject: Negative Balance
Date: Thursday 23 December 2010
From: "PayPal" 
To: 

During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedure 
we have detected a
slight error in your PayPal account.

This might be due to the following reasons:

1. A recent change in your personal information (ie. change of address, email 
address)

2. An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due to an 
internal
error within our systems.

We have attached a form to this email. Please download the form and follow the
instructions on your screen. NOTE: The form needs to be opened in a modern 
browser which has
javascript enabled (ex: Internet Explorer, Firefox ,Netscape)

Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you 
and your account.
We apologize for any inconvenience.

If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to temporary 
suspend your account.

Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department.

Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address are not 
monitored.
For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in 
the footer of any page.

The above is the actual scammer email received. It has been scrubbed of recipient information.
If you received an email like this you have several choices.

Ignore the scammer. Do not respond to emails. Just delete them.
Respond, but only to lead the scammer on--to get a counterfeit check, to report stolen credit card numbers, and to waste the scammer's time. Time spent trying to scam you is time not spent scamming someone else.
Report the scammer to us and we'll post their emails so others will know about that scammer.

Whichever option you choose make sure you do the following:

DO NOT educate the scammer in any way. Educating a scammer makes them better at scamming the next person.
DO NOT let the scammer know that YOU KNOW they are a scammer. The scammer will always be nice to you if they think there's a chance they may still be able to scam you. If they know they've been discovered they will often threaten you. Their threats are empty, but are scary to some people.
DO NOT give the scammer any personal information that they cannot find in a phone book (name, address, and phone.) Feel free to give them lots of incorrect information.

For more information you may contact us by email, email form, or by phone at (801) 277-0888.

Mr. Pinball's Blacklist--Index of Scammers--Individual Email for Scammer--"PayPal" <webform@intl.paypal.com>

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