OT: Paypal Scam

[Jefferson Kirkland]

Hello everyone!  I know this is way off topic, but for anyone in the 
distribution list that has a Paypal account, it should interest you.  My 
colleague at work received an email with the subject:  "YOUR PAYPAL.COM 
ACCOUNT EXPIRES"
The funny thing about this is, he doesn't have a Paypal account, so it 
definately raised an eyebrow or two.  Below is the contents of the 
email, which was supposed to be delivered with an application, but our 
work email system stripped it off.  Anywho, my collegue called Paypal 
and questioned them about it and the guy he talked to said that they 
were recently aware of the scam and to not reply to the email. 

The senders email address was: "donotreply at paypal.com".  Also, below, 
where it says "youremailaddress at domain.com" was my colleagues email 
address.  I just thought everyone should be made aware of this if they 
weren't already.

------ begin email -------

Dear PayPal member,

PayPal would like to inform you about some important information regarding
your PayPal account. This account, which is associated with the email
address

youremailaddress at domain.com 

will be expiring within five business days.  We apologize for any
inconvenience that this may cause, but this is occurring because all of our
customers are required to update their account settings with their personal
information.

We are taking these actions because we are implementing a new security
policy on our website to insure everyone's absolute privacy. To avoid any
interruption in PayPal services then you will need to run the application
that we have sent with this email (see attachment) and follow the
instructions. Please do not send your personal information through email,
as it will not be as secure.

IMPORTANT! If you do not update your information with our secure
application within the next five business days then we will be forced to
deactivate your account and you will not be able to use your PayPal account
any longer. It is strongly recommended that you take a few minutes out of
your busy day and complete this now.

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE VIA EMAIL! This mail is sent by an automated
message system and the reply will not be received.

Thank you for using PayPal.

paspfmhf


------- end email ----------

Regards,

Jeff Kirkland