Props, assholes.
Wow, I almost fell for a really clever scam today. When I checked my e-mail I saw an "e-letter?" from PayPal that said:
Recently we noticed an attempt to log in to your PayPal account from a foreign IP address and we have reason to believe that your account was used by a third party without your authorization.
It said that I needed to click a link, login, and then follow their instructions or the company would be left with no choice but to suspend my account. I almost clicked the link when I realized it was a scam. As soon as entered my login info into the blanks it probably would have been stored somewhere for unauthorized use to the real PayPal site later. What was my first clue? The e-mail was from PayPal, all e-mails so far have come from the sender named service@paypal. Secondly, suspending my account because of suspected misuuse is a pretty nice thing for a company to do. If you were to call and complain about someone gaining unauthorized access to your account I'm sure payPal might do this; generally however, business don't care who uses what account so long as they are still profiting from it. The e-mail made it seem as if I had my own e-guardian angel at Paypal and of course, this would be too good to be true.
Recently we noticed an attempt to log in to your PayPal account from a foreign IP address and we have reason to believe that your account was used by a third party without your authorization.
It said that I needed to click a link, login, and then follow their instructions or the company would be left with no choice but to suspend my account. I almost clicked the link when I realized it was a scam. As soon as entered my login info into the blanks it probably would have been stored somewhere for unauthorized use to the real PayPal site later. What was my first clue? The e-mail was from PayPal, all e-mails so far have come from the sender named service@paypal. Secondly, suspending my account because of suspected misuuse is a pretty nice thing for a company to do. If you were to call and complain about someone gaining unauthorized access to your account I'm sure payPal might do this; generally however, business don't care who uses what account so long as they are still profiting from it. The e-mail made it seem as if I had my own e-guardian angel at Paypal and of course, this would be too good to be true.
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I make a point of never clicking on pay pal from a link in a email.
I always go to their website which i google
Probably a good policy. I've also noticed now that when Paypal does send you an e-mail. The website is in plain text, there's no true link back to the site so you can't be misdirected.
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