I received (in multiple email accounts) the following message:

PayPal
Dear member,

This email confirms that you have paid orders@dell.com $699.99 USD using PayPal.

This credit card transaction will appear on your bill as "PAYPAL *DELL INC".


Payment Details

Purchased Fromell.Inc

Item # Item Title Quantity Price Subtotal
250016390196 New Dell 6400 e1505 Intel Core Duo 1.66GHz 1GB Laptop 1 $669.95 USD $669.95 USD

Shipping & Handling via USPS First Class Mail to 154XX
(includes any seller handling fees) $19.16 USD
Shipping Insurance (optional): --
Sales Tax (6.000% inPA) : $10.88 USD
Total: $699.99 USD
Note:Thank you!



Shipping Information

Shipping Info: Wayne E Bakewell
16 elm st
Brownsville, PA 15417
United States
Address Status: Confirmed

If you have questions about the shipping and tracking of your purchased item or service, please contact the seller orders@dell.com.

Do you confirm this transaction?

If this transaction was not made by you please immediately take the following steps:

* Login to your account by clicking on the link below
* Provide requested information to ensure you are the owner of the account


CANCEL TRANSACTION!

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

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I know a number of friends and family that also received this email in the last few days. Please beware!

Thank you for the information.Sometimes ago,I got a message from paypal about winning a lottery against a small amount.But,Later I came to know that paypal had sent no such messages.

I really think the Federal Governement and the FBI should be actively fighting this problem. I know most of the scams come from outside the US but the government can work with other countries better to stop this huge crime wave.

I've gotten similiar emails like that also. A person was trying to look like he was a Paypal executive and told me I had to verify my credit card by telling him all my info and stuff.

I suggest that you never login through the link given in an e-mail. Instead, go to the actual Paypal website and sign in. Most likely, the e-mail will be fake.

Yeah, definitely. I checked the link properties and it was almost identical to the real paypal address, but they added an extra letter in the domain. I feel sorry for anyone who gets scammed this way. =\

My main concern is how do we stop these companies from ripping people off? Most of us don't fall for it but some people do and I for one would like to get these scammer stopped!

Paypal always tells you to never login from the emails by them and that they will NEVER ask you to log in from emails from them. So I can't understand why people fall for this kind of thing.

Whenever you get an email like that, paypal asks that you send the email to spoof@paypal.com. This will give them the opportunity to disable the link before someone else makes the mistake of clicking on it. They always send a confirmation email letting you know if it was real or not.

The problem is you send it to PayPal and they shut it down but a day later they have a whole nother email going with a different url and from a different address... these guys don't stop and manage to stay a step ahead of PayPal.