PayPal question: I keep getting these account verification

[yellowdogintexas]

emails from PayPal...so my question is: do they do this?
The one today wanted me to confirm my credit card. Heck, I don't even remember which credit card I used to set it up.

I only used it one time.

I just don't want to fall into a scam...today the email was about a new authorized user.

anyone else getting these emails?

[LeftyMom]

1. they're scams

Actual communications from Paypal will show up in your paypal account.

[TrogL]

2. I get hundreds of them - they're a scam

They're trying to get your paypal number and/or credit card information.

[yellowdogintexas]

5. as I suspected. Good think I can't remember my actual

account number or which card I even used the one time I ever used paypal in the first place.

Not only will I report them to PayPal security I will raise the Yahoo SPAM alert

Thanks, good to know I was right all along.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I get them too

and I have never had a payapl account.

It's obviously a scam.

[SoDesuKa]

4. It's Called Phishing

Send them to Paypal security, along with the headers.

[PeterPuck]

6. hover over the link

It is definitely a scam.


The link they give you probably looks something like this...
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

If you hover over the link it will be something like this...
http://84.60.164.147:8080/.paypal-account/

If this would be something official it would be in the paypal.com domain.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. Don't even follow their links

as they've been known to contain viruses.

Instead, forward the e-mail to PayPal. I assume that they have an abuse/scam department, like Ebay does...

[yellowdogintexas]

8. forwarded them all and got a thank you note from PayPal.

I am glad I was suspicious. They were just too persistent.

[RebelOne]

9. When I get those scam mails,

I follow the link, then put obscenities in the blanks where they ask for personal information.

[bridgit]

10. oh yeah, if i understand your template = i have a business pay pal...

account and get them when money is in there for me to transfer to my bank...it works just fine in my case, pay pal's jam'in :thumbsup:

[benny05]

11. It is a scam

I get spam from them all of the time.

[entanglement]

12. It's a phishing scam

n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

13. I get them on a regular basis. You need to report them to

PayPal. Don't follow the link in the email. Go to the PayPal website and they will advise you to forward them to [email protected].

[FunkyLeprechaun]

14. Yep,

They ARE scams. I had changed my email and I still get PayPal scams on my old email so I know they're scams.

I do know a friend of mine (he also Xanga-ed it as well) who got suckered into the PayPal scam and the scammers had withdrawn $500 from his account. Someone commented on his blog that they knew someone who got $5,000 withdrawn. He was lucky somewhat because he didn't actually have a lot of money in that account but the scammers managed to withdraw over what he actually had in the account and the bank probably stopped them from withdrawing anymore.

I can see why it's so easy to fall for them, I almost fell for one ebay one. After using my name and password I realised that this isn't what Ebay would do so I went to Ebay and changed my password.

[benburch]

15. If you answered ANY of these emails, you gsve away your account.

Change your account password at ONCE.

ALL such emails are from criminals. Paypal does not send out these emails.

[KitchenWitch]

16. Do not respond

it is a phishing scam. I get scads of them. To the point where I have actually stopped forwarding them to the PayPal abuse team.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. II never did more than get to the point where they wanted

payment info...all my suspicions were confirmed at that point.

good to know my instincts were right.

[Deja Q]

18. Scamming you up, don't click on the links.