Title: Attention regarding PayPal Phishing Attack Notice: Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at . http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 . Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. Starting around the middle of March 2007, a number of fake emails purporting to be PayPal receipts for The Apache Software Foundation have made their way around the globe. > **The Apache Software Foundation has very likely not charged any payment > to your PayPal account.** Unfortunately, a spammer seems to have reused a standard PayPal template and has sent this same exact email to many many many people around the world. We are just a victim as you all are - we have not sold or captured your emails to anyone (it's very likely we have no idea who you are nor you us!). We suspect that the spammer made a small donation to us via PayPal to capture PayPal's template and subsequently spammed all of you with a fake receipt in an attempt to steal PayPal credentials. This is an unfortunate instance of Phishing. For more information on Phishing, see: - [http://www.antiphishing.org/](http://www.antiphishing.org/) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing) If you do not use PayPal, you can simply ignore the spam email. If you do use PayPal, you should immediately contact PayPal's customer support to ensure that your account has not been abused. This is especially urgent if you followed the link provided by the spammer and entered your account information. Here is some specific information from PayPal: - [Understanding Phishing](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/cps/securitycenter/general/UnderstandPhishing-outside) - https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/cps/securitycenter/general/UnderstandPhishing-outside - They also suggest forwarding the spam to spoof@paypal.com In the highly unlikely event that you do see an actual payment from your PayPal account to The Apache Software Foundation (and you didn't intend it!), please [contact us](contact.html) immediately.