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Insidious PayPal scam

I just received an email that appeared to come from PayPal, as follows:

>You have added laptopseller@yahoo.com as a new email address for your PayPal account.

>If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account, please contact PayPal customer service at:

>https://www.paypal.com/row/wf/f=ap_email

>Thank you for using PayPal!
>The PayPal Team

>Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the
"Help" link in the header of any page.

This email looked very real and made my heart pound. I can see someone clicking the link in a panic. DON'T CLICK THE LINK! It really goes to http://3paypal.com/cgi3/login.html - NOT PAYPAL. Log into your account as normal and check your profile. Mine was fine.

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Insidious PayPal scam
Re: Insidious PayPal scam
Yeah, I got one too ... mad

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