Funny you should mention that. I got a rather legitimate-looking email from PayPal the other day, saying that someone from IP address whatever had used my account, and they thought it was suspicious. Please click on below link within 3 days to confirm that it wasn't you, or else we'll shut down your account for safety purposes.
No mention of, "Please input your password" or "Please confirm your credit card number" or anything like that. It even had warnings not to do that.
What tipped me off to the phoniness of it was that while I do have a PayPal account, I don't have it under that email address. :p And I've used it from different IP addresses before, so I don't see how it could know what's me and what isn't by that alone. Also, there was no link at all to click. But otherwise, it looked completely legit.
I also had the same thing happen to me with Dominion, a game I used to play. I got a notification that someone tried to set up an account with my address, please click link to confirm, yada yada. All it prompted me to do is change my email password, just on the offchance that someone was using it from that way.
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Date: 2005-12-05 02:40 pm (UTC)No mention of, "Please input your password" or "Please confirm your credit card number" or anything like that. It even had warnings not to do that.
What tipped me off to the phoniness of it was that while I do have a PayPal account, I don't have it under that email address. :p And I've used it from different IP addresses before, so I don't see how it could know what's me and what isn't by that alone. Also, there was no link at all to click. But otherwise, it looked completely legit.
I also had the same thing happen to me with Dominion, a game I used to play. I got a notification that someone tried to set up an account with my address, please click link to confirm, yada yada. All it prompted me to do is change my email password, just on the offchance that someone was using it from that way.