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PROTECT YOUR PASSWORD
NEVER give your password to anyone and ONLY log in at https://www. paypal. com/ Protect yourself against fraudulent websites
by opening a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and typing
in the PayPal URL every time you log in to your account.
I have recieved about 2 or 3 of these emails PER DAY over the last couple of weeks, and have been deleting them without opening any of them. for some reason, I opened one today, then got a bit worried.
Yes, definitely phishing for your password. Paypal doesn’t send anything with a link to verify. Ebay and Paypal always include your name in correspondence, not some generic term.
Another one is an email saying your account will be suspended and you need to click on the link immediately to fix the situation.
The phishers are getting more and more sophisticated. They must have thousands of people falling for them every day. I recently got one saying I won a $500 gift certificate, just click on the link to claim the prize.
Always open a new window or tab and manually go to the site (Ebay and Paypal are the two big ones) and then see if there is an update there. Never click on a link in an email, if it looks the least bit fishy. Most phishing email arrives late at night or early in the morning.
besides ALWAYS going to the site and logging in (loging in?) from a separate window, another way to tell it’s a spoof is to put your curser over the link, but don’t click, and see on the bottom of your window WHERE the link is directing you to. 10 times out of 10 it will NOT be Pay Pal, but some totally unrelated site that “may” have the words Pay Pal somewhere in the address.
I have www.paypal.com in my favourites and that’s the only way I’ll go into Paypal. Even if it’s an email notification of a payment that I knew was coming I don’t go into my account from the email. I’ve usually forgotten my password but all I have to do is look it up in the BIG MEMO BOOK OF PASSWORDS SITTING NEXT TO MY COMPUTER!
