Real or spam (PayPal content)

[daj]

had one here the other day dave, just deleted it. but if you have some spare cash dave ,i have a mate in nigeria who will take 10k from you and give you 200k back. it,s a sure investment

Ha,ha nice one Matty!!

They are persistent that's for sure have had about 5 today, went onto my PayPal account they have some good info on there advising on spam emails.

 

[integerspin]

The most obvious thing, apart from what common sense tells you, is the fact the paypal page they want you to login to has a url like ip-number/paypal.html or xxxx.ru/paypal-login.html I have seen url's like paypai.com used.

 

[MarinMartin]

I used to get these constantly. paypal, orange, banks. sure fire giveaway is the vagueness of their greeting (e.g. dear paypal user ) the real one always uses your name. at one point I was getting 8 a day from different ones. strange thing is half the companies they were 'apparently' from I wasnt even a customer of. :roll:

plus Im pretty sure paypal dont use a gmail address with some weird foreign name.

 

[Barneyballbags]

They more than likely came from someone like this: