someone please tell me is this real or fake?

[csitenet]

I got this email today :-

I do not have a paypal account. Stop sending email.
----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: (EDITED_EMAIL_FOR_PRIVACY!)@houston.rr.com
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 5:44 PM
Subject: You have added (EDITED_EMAIL_FOR_PRIVACY!)@yahoo.com to your Paypal account


You have added (EDITED_EMAIL_FOR_PRIVACY!)@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:

http://www.paypal.com/us/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.

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PayPal Email ID PP007

Looks like a standard email from paypal, but note the domain, its paypal.US my name, i snapped this name a few days ago! I dont know what the hell the previous user has been doing with it, but i get over 100 of these mails PER DAY!

could it be the previous user has been using it to email people OR is there some bug in the paypal system that enters the domain as paypal.us?

It looks pretty real to me because i get ALOT of anonymous hits on paypal.us everyday! + when i checked the referals i seen about 30-40 from hotmail, a few yahoo etc.

just looks abit wierd!

 

[Mark Bolyard]

I think it would be safe to assume that the previous owner was up to no good. Maybe you can create a bounce back in your email settings to that whatever address those are coming to a bounced back to the sender.

I just happened to start getting a bunch of emails from spoof ebay addresses were apparently someone hacked into some ebay accounts, listed some fake motorcycle listings, and when I requested more info, they tried to have me use a SQUARE DEAL website for the escrow payment. Turns out the SQUARE DEAL website is thiers and they pocket the money and you get nothing...

Maybe you can set up a autoresponder to address that the site is under new ownership and the people sending you emails won't recieve any more from your address...

 

[seeker]

ouch...
looks like the previous owner was a scammer, and now it will look like you did it!

 

[Bender]

why on earth you got PAYPAL.us in the first place?
Felix is right, you should bounce all the emails back.
and maybe place a note on the site: "we do not send emails .If you received a mail from an @paypal.us address, , report the sender'sIP to the authorities.

 

[csitenet]

i placed an auto responder on all emails which states "we dont't send any emails.....

IF you get an email containint paypal.us please forward it to [email protected] "

Thanks for the infor Felix

 

[seeker]

I dont think that is smart.
disable ANY email.
you are obviously using email forwarding or something to get that.
disable it. let the nameservers show your registrars.
they will bounce naturally.
otherwise, you are digging a deeper hole.

 

[croupier]

I agree, if you don't need [email protected] then just shut it all down and forget about it.

 

[csitenet]

lol i dont need the email i only need the www

I will see if i can shut down my whole mail server on paypal.us then that too should bounce back automatically