I just got phished for my Paypal info! Watch out for....

Yes, I received that email about a several years ago. My email proggy allows me to make a rule to send important emails directly to their own folder. I was leery when this one didn't go direct into my PayPal folder. I like you, opened my PayPal account & began to look around to see what was wrong. I believe there is a "Security" tab where PayPal was asking the members to send them a copy of the email so they could try & track it. I copied the email & pasted into their little "report" box & submitted it. Sure enough PayPasl responded not long after that, that it was indeed a hoax email & they were in the process of tracking down who sent it out. They indicated that they attempt to prosecute anyone they can catch & thanked me for me effort. They suggested I change my password immediately just in case. I immediately logged off, opened up another window & logged back in & changed my password. Then I sent an email to ALL my address book warning them to NOT go to the link if they received a similar email as it was a hoax. This was before the term phishing had been coined.

I have heard about this from a friend. Sadly, she wasn't careful and she lost her money. Even if it wasn't for a big amount, still, it's hard-earned money. One might think that things like these wouldn't happen to them and sometimes we have the tendency to be too trusting. I haven't encountered this but I am also aware that it doesn't mean it wouldn't happen, right ? Thanks for reminding me about this again, I have actually forgotten about it. I'll try be very careful and be always on my toes. Regards.

I haven't had one of those for a long, long time so thanks for the remionder. As Lamb said those that come from PP have my name at the top. The others I just send to the trash bin without even opening them. p.s. I have to follow you around to keep ya up!

Someone got into our paypal account but, it wasn't even from something like that. My husband's paypal account got hacked somehow and the idiot tried to transfer one million dollars from our checking to our paypal Of course a transaction that large required a few days and after buying something on ebay I see the transaction pending and it took many phone calls to paypal to get the transaction stopped.

hello tdemex, phew! that was really close. okay, next time, when ever and if ever this happens to me i will address this to paypal myself and remember that the only thing that is paypal is payment sent and received. i rarely sent complaint except that one time i got pissed but that was last year. paypal-media, eh, almost convincing

This tends to make me a bit nervous, mostly because I'm very new to all of this. I just signed up for a PayPal account not two weeks ago. Does it help that it's only just a free one as of now, do you know? I hope so! And, thanks for the heads-up!

I have gotten these before even with saying this about my main Email account, etc. At least if they do it with my Gmail account it ends up in my Spam folder. But people do need to watch things like this for sure, as you never know what kind of information you could be giving them if you don't. And with all the problems already in todays world who needs anything more?

Hi td, I've never trusted the online security of this type of thing and paypal has been the first I've used. I had the money sat there and each time I tried to transfer it gave up in frustration at yet more information required. So finally on this mylot pay day I tried to transfer the lot out, only to be told I had to re do all the security questions again as someone had been tring to access my account that week. Thanks for the heads up, all I've had from them since the balance is zero is a survey which I promptly deleted.

I've never received an email like this. I think the best thing for everyone to do is to check paypal's website for security guidelines. You could find there almost everything you need to know about protecting your paypal account. Thanks for informing us about this tdemex and I hope lots of people would now be able to avoid phishing of any kind.

Wow! Thank you so much for the alert. The things people do these days. At least there's something to look out for. And yes I shall be extra careful in my online dealings. Thank you, thank you.

hey there tdemex... i got similar messages in the past but never pothered to even clock on their link... i am aware of warnings before so i make it a point to be extra careful.. it is always safer to log on to paypal directly.

yea, you always gotta watch out for anything asking for your password or information. theres tons of schemes out there.. i remember getting an email asking for my aol account info, and it linked to a fake site that looked just like an official aol page. be wary and report on what you find.

See, paypal is an encrypted/secured site. Ok let me make it simple, you will see that connection to paypal is "https://". Https indicales that the website has SSL cerficate (secure sockets layer). Also, you can see a padlock besides the website name which indicates that the site is a real thing.

Thanks for the heads up td! These phishing schemes is just so rampant we all have to be vigilant!

Yeah, I usually catch those since the email is never really from PayPal. It always has another word attached . . . PayPal Media for instance, as you mentioned. It's a pain for sure.

hi tdemex I had one the other day that shook me until I realized it was a phisher, it proclaimed to be from the IRS but it was phoney as the day is long, it told me I owed some back tax money which in itself clued me in as I have not worked in three years and only worked parttime when I did and I did not owe any tax as I had not made enough to have tax taken out. I forwarded it toabuseatwell.com. I also got that paypal with the same wording and knew at once it was some more phishing. grrrrrrrrr.m The IRS one asked me to give my social security number and bank number and that also was a clue to a phisher. glad I knew better.

No, I'll close my email and open my online accounts. I stay keep looking for any kinds of phishing, and thanks for the information.

I'd like to thank you for keeping us alert on this kinda thing. I think that everyone here should just be careful as to where they put their details. Thank you

Wow I have not had anything like this, but I will certainly be more vigiliant in the future. Thanks for the heads up! I have received a number of these types of scams from people pretending to be from banks. Most of the time I don't even have an account with the bank that they are pretending to be from so they are pretty easy to spot. If I do have an account with them you can usually spot them from spelling or layout mistakes. Watch out people!

Ya everyone really has to watch out for things like that. They are all over the internet for even little things like games. It is crazy and dangerous for the phisher. The phisher could actually get into some huge trouble for taking information such as your paypal info.