Advise needed

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Posted By: Joe Pelaez

I'm looking at my e-mail mail box, and I see an e-mail sent by: service@paypal.c...Please Restore Your Account Access.

I don't belong to pay pal, and my street gut feeling tells me not to open it. ... and I'm not.

I'm a total computer illiterate.

Any thoughts, or experience with this sort of thing?


Joe

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Joe, ignore it. It's a fraud.

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Posted By: Joe Pelaez

We could have used you on the "Defenders."
E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed would have loved to have had you on board.

Thanks again, my NYC guts are still working. ... atleast something is.
Joe

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Posted By: Harry Wallace (HW)

It is called "phishing" - don't bite.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

If you don't belong to PayPal toss it.

Except in rare cases, you don't get a virus by merely opening up an email. You have to open up a bad email and click on a bad link or download an image they want you to download ... It's best to delete an irrelevant titled email without looking at it, but rarely will mortal harm happen if you open up an email just to read the text. The exception being that some email programs automatically show all images when an email is read. That's not good, but the email program can be set to not show images.

There is a television commercial where a woman in a cubicle clicks on an enticing titled email, and the mere act of opening the email instantly shuts down her and her workmates' computers-- but that's pretty much science fiction.

My mom once asked me about an email she got with title saying she should update the info for her online CUNA bank account. I told her that from the title it obviously was a scam as 1) She doesn't have an online account with any bank and 2) CUNA wasn't her bank. No need to look at it, toss it out.

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Posted By: Joe Pelaez

Thanks for your take and inputs, much appreciated.

Phish, ... I learn something new every day.
Baited hooks.
I was beginning to think that it was my imagination, but lately I've been noticing varius presentations of Phishing.
ID theft, is taking the fun out of the PC world.
First Dr. Koos, now this?

It's gotten to the point that if I don't recognize the e- addy, or suspect the official looking whatever, ... I delete it.
It's getting so, that one has to keep up with the high tech of the schemers.
Thanks again.
Joe