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Old 11-16-2015, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by tcxr750 View Post
Received a request from PayPal that requested information.It looked real.I haven't had a PayPal account for ten years! Some grammatical errors in the greeting. The rest is a direct copy from PayPal.

My Pay Pal account was "hijacked" some years ago. I haven't used them since.

I was just notified by "Amazon" of some charges that were made to my account, charges I hadn't made.
The email said that if I clicked a link, the charges could be eliminated if they were erroneous.
I knew it was Phishing, so I called Amazon. They said it happens all the time.

The internet world is full of scams - please be careful and don't click on any suspicious links.
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