Another paypal-related fraud attempt

[ka jowct]

We don't need no steenkin' Spellcheck!


($email) Temporaly Suspend,

Security Center Advisory!

We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your PayPal account from a foreign IP address and we have reasons to belive that your account was hijacked by a third party without your authorization. If you recently accessed your account while traveling, the unusual log in attempts may have been initiated by you.

If you are the rightful holder of the account you must click the link below and then complete all steps from the following page as we try to verify your identity.

Click here to verify your account



If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to temporaly suspend your account.

Thank you for using PayPal! The PayPal Team



This one had a column of helpful advice to the right of the threat to "temporaly suspend" me:

Protect Your Account Info

Make sure you never provide your password to fraudulent persons.

PayPal automatically encrypts your confidential information using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol (SSL) with an encryption key length of 128-bits (the highest level commercially available).

PayPal will never ask you to enter your password in an email.

For more information on protecting yourself from fraud, please review our Security Tips at http://www.paypal.com/us/

Protect Your Password
You should never give your PayPal password to anyone, including PayPal employees.

[Grateful11]

and this is unusual? I see at least two per week.

[Jim Williams]

Don't keep us in suspense. Which "choise" did you make?

[chas_m]

Tune in next week, when Ka Jowct breathlessly posts the shocking secret of Nigerians who claim to have buckets of money waiting for him.

[ka jowct]

I had a hard time chosing. I thought maybe being "temporaly suspended" might actually mean coming unstuck in time, which could be interesting, if a tad scary.

I didn't say it was unusual or convincing, now, did I?

I was more interested in the fact that no one who does this kind of thing seems to have a spell-check capability that works on English.

Chas, who is "him" supposed to be?

[incognegro]

this strikes me as redundant: "hijacked by a third party without your authorization."

does not hijacking presuppose without authorization?

[ka jowct]

LOL. Good point, incog, I hadn't gotten beyond the speling missteaks.