Do you use paypal? Be careful about paypal fishing email...

@cmsk2005 (1770)
United States
August 11, 2007 1:00pm CST
I love using paypal, its like a magic to me i can transfer money just with an email to anywhere in this world!! I use it often and i would like to be with them as long as I can. But we all should be alert all the time who use paypal as i got an email recently just like the same mail generally sent by paypal for any kind of information or payment confirmation, just exactly the same look, from address also same and with the logo exactly matching with paypal, with a link of paypal website and asked me to login as my acount is going to be invalid very soon as I have not updated it for long time. When i saw the mail i had doubt litle bit, so i just clicked the link but not entring my mail id or anything, I still was not totally convinced by the mail why i dont know and i forwaded the mail to the paypal asking them about the authenticity of that one. They replied witin second that it was a fishing mail and they thanked me for reporting this one. So all of us who use paypal must be alert allways about any kind of these things, it is really risk
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12 responses
chilukala
@chilukala (76)
• China
12 Aug 07
thanks my friend about telling or posting such a good information
lzjilbb
@lzjilbb (425)
• China
12 Aug 07
But how could a fake site use the same address as the real paypal? I think there must be some little difference that we can use to recognize those fishing site.
Foxxee
@Foxxee (3651)
• United States
12 Aug 07
yeah, but paypal doesn't send emails out. I also get a lot of these emails, but never trust them because paypal did state they don't send emails out asking for passwords or any of that. glad you caught it though. :)
sid556
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
12 Aug 07
Thanks for the heads up. I am fairly new to paypal and that is my biggest fear...getting caught up in some stupid scam!
aletanz
@aletanz (44)
• Italy
12 Aug 07
thanks for the info, but the only mail that i receive from paypal, are payment mail,however i only read the mail...
violeta_va
@violeta_va (4831)
• Australia
12 Aug 07
I dont pay atention to anything that comes in my mail if I get anything I go strait to paypal page and check it out on my acount or send an e-mail to them
globell45
@globell45 (142)
• United States
12 Aug 07
thanks you. I just got one of those also. I suspected fraud myeslf. thanks again.
vikrampatel
@vikrampatel (16)
• India
12 Aug 07
hey.thanks a lot...for this information and warining...it will be very useful for all users of paypal...
tombiz
@tombiz (2036)
• Philippines
12 Aug 07
It is PHISING, not fishing. It is designed to get your informations for other uses most probably illegal uses. This could be done by an email purportedly from a popular site (like Paypal or e-gold) or through a website which looks almost the same as that of the original site. The main intention is to get hold of your username and passwords so that phisers could enter the site and access your account. We must really be careful with this. Informations like passwords should never be just shared by any other means aside from the true site.
arcidy
@arcidy (5005)
• United States
11 Aug 07
I dont really use paypal that much I have an pay pal account but ive only used it once on some dating forum now if stores like amazon.com or bestbuy.com then I would probally use paypal more often the only money im going to use for paypal is what ever money I make on this forum. But I never heard anyone else with any problems using paypal most people seem to like it a lot.
ashar123
@ashar123 (2357)
• India
11 Aug 07
I have many complaints with Paypal. I am a member of E-Gold. Paypal is not available in my country. I think Paypal must be available to all countries.
carmelanirel
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
11 Aug 07
Oh wow, I didn't know that.. I am so glad I read this, thank you for sharing.