Paypal account

@anujain75 (1059)
India
June 17, 2008 7:52am CST
Today when I try to open my paypal account a message appeared that please ive some information,they are asking for credit card number,ATM pin number.I then logout from it and told my husband to open this account on his laptop.There its open normally.Do you face this type of problem.
9 responses
@moraho (234)
• Nepal
17 Jun 08
... that certainly was a phishing site ... you must be very careful with these ... they are very active with payment processing sites ... easily convincing and will clear your account in no time ... I have not face it yet though, but read some about it online ... Good luck
@anujain75 (1059)
• India
17 Jun 08
Yes this is a phishing site.
@moraho (234)
• Nepal
18 Jun 08
... thank GOD ... u were keen enough to not give them the infos ...
@sdas86 (6076)
• Malaysia
17 Jun 08
Hi, I think it is better to ignore the message and then make sure the site is the original PayPal site. It might be phishing site, so better not to give your credit card number.
@sdas86 (6076)
• Malaysia
18 Jun 08
Hi, You should try to access your PayPal account using different computer. Maybe your computer is infected by spyware and caused problem to your PayPal.
@anujain75 (1059)
• India
17 Jun 08
Whenever I logged to my paypal account this page appears.I have deleted all cookies.clear forms and password and scan it but nothing works.Problem is as it is.one thing I noticed the Grapics of homepages are different of the sites.The fake one has some number on its homepage while the real one has a man having laptop.
@ltmoon (1008)
• United States
17 Jun 08
Sounds like you were intercepted by a phishing site. PayPal never asks for that type of information when logging in. Check the address bar of your browser for where you landed and copy that addy and send it to PayPal for them to investigate.
@anujain75 (1059)
• India
18 Jun 08
I complain it to paypal.Even I got a mail from them.
• India
17 Jun 08
hey i think it's not mandatory for us to give the credit card details at paypal.i did not face the problem yet but i also many people complaining the same thing. i think they bring this out when we try to opt fot a payout. i don know .gotta wait andsee if i'm gonna face this too. but please if if come to know anything on this , let me know
@anujain75 (1059)
• India
18 Jun 08
This site is Phishing site.I got a mail from paypal.They mentioned that this type fradulant sites become active if we use browser like IE or netscape.I download Mozilla after reading the mail and my account is open. But after that again I try to open the same account from IE same thing appears.
@tintinn (277)
17 Jun 08
I have never had this problem with paypal. And I am kind of positive that paypal would never asked for your ATM pin numbers. Why don't you scan your computer and make sure that you don't have any spyware or spybot infected in your computer. And you should be more careful with some websites too. Nowaday there are so many phishing sites around. Have a nice day.
@anujain75 (1059)
• India
17 Jun 08
I have scanned my computer so many times.But the result is same.Well My hubby's laptop IP is secured one.So temporarily I made all my paypal transaction very safely on his computer.
@setroc (853)
• Philippines
17 Jun 08
you should be careful there are a lot of sites that imitate another site so it can get some information out of you, i think that site is a phising site, i think that is how its called, every time you open your paypal dont open it on an already open browser open a new window
@anujain75 (1059)
• India
17 Jun 08
This site is phising site.Because graphics of this site is different from the original one.The graphic of the fake one has 5184 number while in the original one has no number on it.
@gtdonna (1738)
17 Jun 08
maybe you went to a wrong site or followed a phlishing site link...ALWAYS make sure that https and the padlock is showing in the address bar when you go to paypal and never follow any links from your email, even if it says you got money. When i see any paypal emails, i go directly to paypal website and login
@anujain75 (1059)
• India
17 Jun 08
Thanks for your advice.
@snakequeen (1299)
• India
17 Jun 08
Hi anu! This is a useful information for me, who is going to open a paypal account shortly. Thanks.
@anujain75 (1059)
• India
17 Jun 08
Yes If possible I can put a screen shot of this page on mylot.So that other people should aware of this thing.
• India
17 Jun 08
Well, it is not a problem actually. When you opened your account paypal asked you for some information. They check their members details and if anything is missing then try to fill it up. When they asked you for the information and you logged out, you indirectly refused to provide that info. when your hubby opened it in his laptop, since you had rejected to provide info they just sent you to your account.
@anujain75 (1059)
• India
17 Jun 08
No My paypal account is working well in other computer.Even they are not asking any information.I have withdraw money from my account to my bank account.I am not a verified member of paypal so there is no question of credit cards information.This site asking for ATM pin number that means this is a phising site.