Paypal beware of Phishing!

[tonyorion]

Despite issues with Paypal and its anti e cig stance, many of us still use it, so you should be aware of this.

You may find an email from a site that looks exactly like paypal. Only it is not!!! The email will look like it is coming from paypal@e.paypal. com. The "e." or "e-" in front of the paypal is makes this a non valid paypal address. The email will have one of two forms:

1) It will ask you to log into your account to confirm your information.
2) It will come up with special offers.

If you use the link in the email to access your paypal account, you are basically screwed since you have given the scammers all of your information. These people are very clever and even have their own people watching over discussion boards. When someone pops the question, they will immediately chime in to tell you that the site is safe. Nasty SOB's!


The only way to access paypal is through www.paypal.com. As a general rule, NEVER, NEVER, EVER access your paypal/credit card/bank accounts via a link posted in an email. Did I say never?

If you do get an email from a company/bank/credit card etc. requesting account or personal information, immediatly contact your respective institution and start changing passwords.

 

[washvap]

Thank you very much for the information. Have gotten some funny emails from supposed major businesses.

 

[jj2]

PayPal tells you up front it will never ask you for information via email.

Nor will any reputable company.

And when I go to PayPal it's from a link I have saved in favorites.

Just take precautions!!!

 

[bjannr]

I received an email telling me my account has been limited and to verify info. I logged on to my account through the regular site, not the email link. I could find nothing there that said anything about any problem.
If I ever get any email about trouble from any of my accounts noon matter what type, I always go directly to the regular website, and never, never, never use the link in the email.

 

[washvap]

Same here, one of them nearly got me though. Had an email from American Airlines saying that I had bought a ticket, etc. Thought that I had gotten my identity stolen until I did some research and found out that it was a scam. People have to be VERY careful now at days.

 

[BluSwatch]

I get alot of e-mails like that ... and the old "You won $6,000,000 in Botswana ...."

 

[Bozzlite]

Hmmm, I just got one of those from e.paypal.com. It said, to check my account, go to paypal.com, but did not have a clickable link.

Edit: Oops, I was wrong. Once I clicked enable images it had a link to log in.