Pal pal beware !
 

Just got a VERY official looking email from Paypal ( i used to have a act)
It said suspicious activity and wanted information to verify what i have been doing !
Had a Pay Pal Act i might ave got sucked in
BNWARE

BEWARE
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!***********:ee k:*****************************

That is probably not from PayPal, but from a scammer.

That was the point
BEWARE !

How can I stay safe?

Everyone in cadence with me in 30 sec...CANCEL PAY PAL
tell them to go to hell
other then that i do not know.............

That scam has only been bouncing around since Al Gore invented the internet. Substitute a multitude of different major banks and credit cards for "Paypal" and you get the gist. It has nothing to do with Paypal.

How can I be sure I'm really logging into PayPal?

Key in the full address to the Paypal site directly, don't click on a link, don't use auto-complete.

Dennis

Wow thanks! I can't believe this hasn't been covered before.

What's annoying about all that phising crap is I've missed real emails from companies because I just assume everything is bogus.

Latest one cost me north of $250 over the last three months.

Seems I had an Amazon cloud test database running in one of my accounts and forgot about it.

Saw the "invoices" come in and ignored them. Wife asked me the other day about a charge on one of my cards and it clicked.

My fault, I left the thing running but if I'd taken the first $40 invoice seriously I'd have saved some shekels.

This really shouldn't be news to anyone. Scammers and phishers send these emails pretending to be your bank, your wireless company, Amazon, PayPal, etc. The emails have nothing to do with PayPal and are not their "fault".

Never enter sensitive personal information (password, account number, social security number, etc) on any website that you reached by clicking a link in an email. Any email.

To go to a website where you will enter sensitive personal information, type the website's URL directly into your browser. "www.paypal.com" etc.

^ This ^

Never ever click a link from any email that claims to be ANY financial intuition. If you are not sure about the account just type in the address on your browser.

That same thing applies to a phone call. If someone calls and claims to be from your bank get they name and extension. Look up the phone number to that institution on Google or the phone book and call them.

OK, if you get an email from PayPal with a link........ignore the link, go to your "favorites" and click on PayPal, and see if there is an issue, 90% of the time there isn't any problem. Scammers are trying to get you to click on their link and enter your private password and account name so they can then clean you out on the real PayPal site. JUST SAY NO !

*******DO WHAT Ckelly78z !~!!!! ** said..always
and if Goberment wants to pass laws.......
how much soda to drink
how and where to smoke
why not pass a cut your "NUTS off law" to fraud someone....oh i forgot...they are the biggest scammers around

Typically, if you hover over a web link, or right click on it and view the properties, you will see it's not sending you to Paypal. For example, I am using Firefox. If I hover my mouse on any web links on this thread, I see the actual URL in the lower-left side of my browser window...

Some of the scammers are actually good enough to accurately mirror the subject website all the way down to the URL. Hence why you shouldn't ever trust those emails, no matter how good they look.

Safe to assume you intended to use green font?

Sometimes they are even so bright as to take you to the Paypa1 site (that's a 1, not an L)

I also look for the https and the green lock symbols that, in IE anyway, signify you're on a "secure" site. I frankly don't know if a phisher can easily create a secure site, but I know if the site is not showing up in my browser as a secure site, it isn't the real Paypal . . .