PayPal
Fake Unauthorized Transaction Email After Listing on Craig's List

This is a warning to others. Since I began to list a business on Craig's List, I have been getting LOTS of spam emails, all trying to get me to give them personal information. I just dump them.

Today I received an especially egregious message, purportedly from PayPal, warning me about an unauthorized transaction on my account. They want me to click a link called "Resolution Center" and confirm my identity by giving them my username and password. The only thing is, I do not have a PayPal account. The link goes to a site called http://moodswingstudio.com/pix/paypals/. That does not sound like PayPal to me.

What it does sound like is that someone at that link is spamming Craig's List addresses, trying to get people to give him/her/them their personal PayPal information so that they can go on a spending spree.

Clicking on the link, I read: "July 23rd: I'm getting lots of emails from angry folks about a phishing scam directing people back to my site at a bogus address. I'm very sorry to those that have received these phony emails and I'm working on a resolution!"

Maybe this answer is legit, maybe it is not.

I hate scammers!

Company: PayPal
Country: USA

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