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Got a rather clever phishing mail today. A couple of the usual "we're not quite professional" typos and the traditional "dear Paypal member" giveaway, but a nice, sneaky approach:

From: PayPal [mailito:service@paypal.com]
Subject:Your PayPal e-mail adress was successfuly updated

Dear PayPal member,

You have added ribberoneal@msn.com as a new email address for your PayPal account.

If you did not authorize this change, check with family members and others who may have
access to your account first. If you still feel that an unauthorized person has changed
your email.
Please download and unzip the form attached to your email .
Submitting this form you will unlimit and restore your PayPal account .

If you are using Internet Explorer please allow ActiveX for scripts to perform all data transfers securely .

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.

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Copyright © 2010 PayPal. All rights reserved.




Anyone had any better ones?

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