Fraud involving PayPal name

Whistle
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I chose my credit card based on its excellent online records (I pay it online and can see charges as soon as they are made) and an optional program that generates a unique card number for purchases, with a time limit as well as a dollar limit, both set by me at the time of generation. I’ve used that program for all my online purchases.

Apart from a few phone calls asking me if I want to ‘upgrade’ to a different rate, I’ve had no trouble with this company. Actually, one time a few years ago I made two purchases within two or three days - $15 to a shareware company online and $5 to Russia for an ebay item, and the card company called me to verify that I had made those charges. Kinda neat, actually.

If anyone wants the name of this company, drop me a message or email.

–Beth

[ This Message was edited by: avanutria on 2003-02-02 17:58 ]

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Thanks for the help, I’m sure all is well.

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As far as websites requesting information. The only people who have a right to your SS# is the government, your employer and your bank. Anyone else is trying to scam your identity.

And yes, the best protection if you get an email is to go to the website the way you normally would to update any information, not thru their links.

I got one of those emails last week telling me to update my credit card information for Paypal. Said my card was about to expire. That tipped it off since my card is good until 2004.

Be careful out there. :slight_smile: