Restricted Paypal Access

I'm very relieved to hear that! I always forward the emails to them first, and have never had one that was legitimate. I'm glad you weren't scammed!

I always forward them, too. Usually, I go straight to the site by typing the address in and see what's going on. If there's nothing going on there, I will forward the e-mails. There are certain things in the e-mail that tell you it's legitimate, too. They give out tips in that regard on their website.

brilliant course of action. I would have done the same thing too. I used to receive similar mails too but they were referring to my older paypal email - the one that I stopped using...so I just threw em all to the spam folder. Thanks for that spoof@paypal.com. Will send these mails the next time I receive these kinds of mail.

They did have one link and it definitely linked to Paypal, but I didn't use it and went through my browser instead. All it said was that my account was restricted due to some kind of security breech, but it didn't tell me why. I had to actually go into my account to see what the problem was. I wish they had given me some detail as to what and when the breech occurred.

Sorry. Just read over another post to a response someone made as I was posting this and I realized that you already mentioned that you went directly through paypal's site the proper way! My guess is that maybe your account actually got "phished" which is basically the equivalent of someone stealing your password. I figured out that some sites can steal your passwords just by going to their site without even entering your information. I found this out the hard way! The thing is I usually get alerted more or less immediately if I cross over to the wrong site, so unless the scammer is sitting there at the computer at that very moment there is no way he'll get to my information before I have time to change it. A third party could just as easily TRY to access your account just by knowing your email you use for paypal. It's best to if you get this alert and it's official, drop any new programs you've started for means of earning online or otherwise. Also, possibly even drop old programs you haven't been paid by or have always seemed shifty to you. Some sites are known to get you to join up & if you use a "universal" password, they try to use the password you signed up with them for your paypal account that you provided and in some cases, it does work and people get scammed. Maybe more research into programs you join up into is needed? Possibly even if you use a "universal" password as in, the same password for everything you do a change is in order?

That's what I think happened. I signed up for this one site that didn't pay. So, after a month or so of qualifying for payout, I gave up. I use different passwords for different things and use a more secure password for financial things, like banking, that I would never use on any other types of sites. I'm usually pretty careful about signing up for sites and generally pick ones that have been around and I know people have been paid at. But, you never know, things can even change at those sites, too.

Yeah, I've had this account for 8 years and never had this come up. Everything's OK and nothing else has happened.

This was a real e-mail regarding a real security problem that was actually on the site. Also, Yahoo uses Domain Keys and it also confirmed that this is an e-mail from Paypal. I was basically wondering if anyone else had had to update their security questions on their site like I did and got the same e-mail.