Pay Pal ... is it real.
 

Just got this email from Paypal inc...

I've never done any business with said email address...

Your views please as I've changed my log on password since getting the email.

It looks pretty good. But if you feel the need to check i'd go to the website manually as i didnt think ebay or paypal included links in their emails.

Probably complete ********. I would suggesting logging into your Paypal account and checking the details. If the email address isn't there, I would suggest either ignoring the email (which is what I usually do) or report it to Paypal.

Too true there about reporting it to their abuse department

I Smell a phishing scam , most probably a Nigerian money raiser,

Numbers

Sounds like a phishing exercise. Just don't follow the link in the mail as it will go to some site that looks like paypal and you then enter your paypal username/password, they reject it storing your details and redirect you to the real paypal.

You then think you typed your password wrong, check your details, breath a sigh of relief that there is nothing wrong and log out. Then you discover that somebody had then t logged in as you, changed the email address/password and spent your money with goods delivered to a collection address.

Because you did not recieve notification by email you only find out when your bank/card company write to you to say you have gone over your limits.

out of interest just hover over the link to the paypal address and look where it thinks it is going. probably just an ip address or a domain name nothing like paypay

Beware Pay pal emails - I had one that looked just like a real pay pal one asking me to verify my details. I did (stupid naive person) click the link but as soon as I saw the questions they were asking - full card details WITH PIN, card verification number etc I smelled a dodgy thing and closed it down. I forwarded the email to ebay or a real pay pal address and they confirmed it was a phishing thing. Had a couple of others after but none recently.

I found that the link address written on the email was actually not the one that came up in the address bar when you clicked on the link. If you manually go to pay pal and log in the normal way its fine. Have had no problems paying with pay pal normally by the way...

Here is the page at the end of the link....

http://upload4.postimage.org/145434/Untitled_2.jpg


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what address was it sent from?
image certainly looks real but i'd be wary

The link is quite bona fide. Simply log on to your PayPal account in the normal way and check your details, and if necessary email them with a query.


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Steve

Not wishing to teach my granny to suck eggs, but how can you know what the page is that the link refers to with only the "text" that numbers has posted. It is only if you look at the underlying html or hover on the actual link in abrowser that you will see where it actually goes.


This is one of my arguments against the growing use of html based mail. People see what they think they see. Would you click on a link that was titled "paypal scam", no of course you wouldn't but is the link said "I am the genuine paypal" then people trust it.

it is simple html tags like http://www.paypal.com . Using this the test in the browser says paypal but when you click on it off you go to the phishing site.