... received today. Purports to be from PayPal, but given what they ask for, I was suspicious immediately. The fact that I do not have and never have had a PayPal account was also a tipoff!

I responded to the email, telling the sender to rot in hell -- and my reply bounced back instantly, indicating that the email address isn't real. No telling where the information would go if you completed the form.

Can't imagine anyone being dumb enough to send their full name, credit card number, expiration date and PIN #, but suppose someone will.

BTW, I could not get the "From" line to stay in the message below. Every time I tried, it changed it to "Wrom" and a long line of nonsense characters. What's up with that?

The actual "From" is "Service@paypal.com" and then a second address inside brackets which is "atocasv@stu.cn.ua". It disappears when I put the brackets on it, too. ?????

----- jim o\-S
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Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:52:24

Subject: Your PayPal account is Limited (81179075)
To: "Runtam"

Dear PayPal Customer

This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by PayPal to detect inactive customers and non-functioning mailboxes.

The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in the next 3 months.

Please confirm your email address and credit card information by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:

Email Address:
Password:
Full Name:
Credit Card #:
Exp.Date(mm/yyyy):
ATM PIN (For Bank Verification) #:

This notification expires September 31, 2003

Thanks for using PayPal!