PayPal Warning

[Pitch Pocket]

I received an email from "Service" labled "Confirm your information!". In the message which looked like Paypal, it asked me to click on a link and confirm my Paypal information. I checked the Paypal website to see if they were in fact asking for re-confirmation of info and they were not. In fact they warned about fraudulent Paypal emails. I sent them the email and they said it wasn't theirs. Here is their reply:

Thank you for bringing this suspicious email to our attention. We can
confirm that the email you received; was not sent to you by PayPal. The
website linked to this email is not a registered URL authorized or used by
PayPal. We are currently investigating this incident fully. Please do not
enter any personal or financial information into this website.

If you have surrendered any personal or financial information to this
fraudulent website, you should immediately log into your PayPal Account and
change your password and secret question and answer information. Any
compromised financial information should be reported to the appropriate
parties.

If you notice any unauthorized activity associated with your PayPal
transaction history, please immediately report this to PayPal by following
the instructions below:

1. Go to https://www.paypal.com/
2. Click on the Security Center at the bottom of the page
3. Click on "Report a Problem"
4. Select the Topic: Report Fraud
5: Select the Subtopic: Unauthorized use of my PayPal Account, and click
Continue.
6. Follow the instructions to access the appropriate form


Be careful out there!

[rojo]

Thanks for the heads up,I quite using paypal because of all the spam. But I still get msgs like that that are not theres... Roger

[SpinnerMan]

Pitch Pocket,

Way to go! We need more people like you! Its time we all took the effort to stop things like this!
[img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]


rojo,

A law recently passed against unwanted spam messages -- so you can take action also!

REPORT OR FORWARD SPAM TO:

uce@ftc.gov

Let's do it! :grin:

SM

[ 02-03-2004, 11:57 AM: Message edited by: SpinnerMan ]

[RogueFisher]

I received the same E-mail about 6 weeks ago. I deleted it.
I figured that if Pay Pal needs my info they can get it from me next time I decide to purchase something.

You can't be too careful these days when it comes to giving up personal or financial info over the internet.

There's always some scheister out there trying to get into your wallet.

Okey dokey?

:grin: