I know that some people see these quite often, but I thought I would share mine.
Just rec'd an officail looking email from: service@paypal.com <service@paypal.com>
The body of the email:
It has come to our attention that your PayPal Billing Information records are out of date. That requires you to update the Billing Information.
Failure to update your records will result in account termination. Please update your records in maximum 24 hours. Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems.
Please click here to update your billing records.
Thanks for using PayPal!
This PayPal notification was sent to your mailbox. Your PayPal account is set up to receive the PayPal Periodical newsletter and product updates when you create your account. To modify your notification preferences and unsubscribe, go to /www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI and log in to your account. Changes to your preferences may take several days to be reflected in our mailings. Replies to this email will not be processed.
If you previously asked to be excluded from Providian product offerings and solicitations, they apologize for this e-mail. Every effort was made to ensure that you were excluded from this e-mail. If you do not wish to receive promotional e-mail from Providian, go to removeme.providian.com/.
Copyright 2004 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.
Simpleweb hosting has been aquired by Alligator Technologies in Costa Mesa, California. All technical support and billing questions can be answered by calling Dynamic Concepts, Inc., the backbone provider for Alligator Technologies at (949)448-8600.
To see the web services and products offered by your new Internet services provider please refer to www.alligatortech.net. We look forward to providing you with high-speed quality web hosting together with dial-up connectivity and world class technical support!
The last two paragraphs do not show up in the email unless you hover over a hidden line under the text. It showed up when I copied the whole email. I've alerted PayPal to this one.
Just rec'd an officail looking email from: service@paypal.com <service@paypal.com>
The body of the email:
It has come to our attention that your PayPal Billing Information records are out of date. That requires you to update the Billing Information.
Failure to update your records will result in account termination. Please update your records in maximum 24 hours. Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems.
Please click here to update your billing records.
Thanks for using PayPal!
This PayPal notification was sent to your mailbox. Your PayPal account is set up to receive the PayPal Periodical newsletter and product updates when you create your account. To modify your notification preferences and unsubscribe, go to /www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI and log in to your account. Changes to your preferences may take several days to be reflected in our mailings. Replies to this email will not be processed.
If you previously asked to be excluded from Providian product offerings and solicitations, they apologize for this e-mail. Every effort was made to ensure that you were excluded from this e-mail. If you do not wish to receive promotional e-mail from Providian, go to removeme.providian.com/.
Copyright 2004 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.
Simpleweb hosting has been aquired by Alligator Technologies in Costa Mesa, California. All technical support and billing questions can be answered by calling Dynamic Concepts, Inc., the backbone provider for Alligator Technologies at (949)448-8600.
To see the web services and products offered by your new Internet services provider please refer to www.alligatortech.net. We look forward to providing you with high-speed quality web hosting together with dial-up connectivity and world class technical support!
The last two paragraphs do not show up in the email unless you hover over a hidden line under the text. It showed up when I copied the whole email. I've alerted PayPal to this one.
Yea, that's pretty bad. I mean if I was trying to rip people off, I wouldn't be so lazy about it. Like all those Nigeria emails... I mean c'mon people, switch the countries around a bit; use some imagination!
