Paypal verification scam widespread
By kingparker
@kingparker (9673)
United States
December 24, 2011 3:13am CST
You may received more than many times of those paypal verification scam mail on your inbox. I did receive them almost like daily routine on my hotmail. On the message, they pretend to be the representative of paypal, and want me to sumbit them my password along with day of birth kind of personal information to the link in the message. That just like an old trick, and you won't want to do that. Once you submit them all that sensitive information, they might clean up fast on any money still in your paypal account. So, get them to junk mail, and delete them immediately is the right move.
4 responses
@stanley777 (9402)
• Philippines
25 Dec 11
Yeah, there are many scam mails and pop-up messages that asked for personal information now a days. These guys who sent them are mostly impersonators and fraudsters trying to trick us on giving information from us.So, we must be really careful on these scams.
Anyway, I have not received any verification scam mail supposed to be from Paypal. My account in Paypal is already verified long time ago, why again. If ever I'll received it's sure a scam. Thanks for bringing this out my friend.
@sincere4frdship (2228)
• India
24 Dec 11
I have also recieved such kind of mail in past but when ever I feel anything suspicius I just go to paypal directly and then log in there to check whether they are asking any verification or not.
These scammers are making much trouble for many and many has been lost their amount as I know one or two.
Thanks
@iceorigin (66)
• China
24 Dec 11
Thanks for warning me. I have received similar email. And I just get them to junk. Besides, some scam websites usually provide fake web pages that looks almost the same as real web pages. These web pages always ask you password and some private information. So, be careful.
