" Dear valued costumer, eBay's acquisition of PayPal was completed on October 3, 2002. As part of our continuing commitment to protect your account "...

If you have received this email, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content or the same but with the fake page(s) hosted by a different provider. Also, once you have received one of these hoaxes, it is also common place to receive at least another one and usually a day or two after the first, although not necessarily from the same apparent sender.

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The bogus web page ...