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You Give Money To PeyPell, Is Good, No?
by Lee

This could be the most poorly written PayPal email scam I’ve ever received.

Now Paypal Give Extra Money . 50 $
To refill your paypal account with Extra Money you must writte e-mail and the password .
With paypal account You can buy everything in internet .
Click Here to Refill :
www.paypal.com

Paypal Services ...

A few tips to scammers.

1.  Learn how to properly format a piece of business correspondence.
2.  Learn to write English without making it sound like it was written by a Russian.
3.  The name of the company is not “paypal” it is “PayPal.”
4.  More Russian:  “With paypal account You can buy everything in internet .” Just ask Moose and Squirrel!

Posted by Lee on 07/13/08 at 10:48 AM (Discuss this in the forums)

Comments


Posted by on 07/13/08 at 01:11 PM from Australia

Those things are profitable because they produce very high quality results. They don’t get a lot of suckers, but the signal to noise ratio is very high. Do your bit by polluting their results - when you get a scam email, click through and put in fake but legit-looking info. Not fuck@you.com or anything like that, but something realistic.

Then you can get the mental image of some low-life scammer swearing and hammering at his desk as he tries non-working account after non-working account, giving the bank and law enforcement plenty of time to trace him. If they have to try a thousand accounts for every valid hit, they’re not going to make much out of their scam.

Posted by on 07/13/08 at 02:14 PM from United States

I especially like the use of the word “refill"…
“To refill your account"…

I haven’t shopped ebay in quite a while, but when I did in the past I was always getting the scam emails about my PayPal account.

Posted by on 07/13/08 at 08:17 PM from Japan

the .ws is the ccTLD for Samoa.

I doubt that’s actually where they are, though?

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