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Below is another example of a phishing attacks submitted to ConsumerFraudReporting: Notice the highlighted items in the example below: the links and email clearly do not belong to PayPal. The links go to http://www.profiles.effers.com , the scammer's website. And if you think you have been victimized, see our What to do, if you think you have been the victim of identity theft page!
Here is what PayPal suggests:
You've added an additional email address to your PayPal account.
If you don.t agree with this email philip @adelphi.net and if you need assistance with your account, please click here to login to your account.
To make sure you can use your PayPal account the next time you make a purchase, all you need to do is confirm or not your email address. If your email program has problems with hypertext links, you may also confirm your email address by logging in to your account.
Thank you for using PayPal!
Sincerely,
PayPal
Customer
Service
Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.
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