Just about every month I get an HTML formatted email from PayPal. Every month, I go into my PayPal profile notification preferences and discover that I already have it set to only send email notifications when a transaction takes place. Well, this month I’ve had it. If I can’t trust them to honor something as simple as my notification preferences, I can’t trust them with my bank account numbers. I’ve closed my PayPal account.
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2 Comments
Are you absolutely sure those emails REALLY came from PayPal? There are a lot of “phishing” scams happening out there, in which the “phisher” sends FAKE email claiming to be from an online vendor such as PayPal or eBay or Amazon. The email is really from a completely unrelated person or organization.
The goal is to get you to type in your username and password, which then become available to the fraudulent company or individual who is perpetrating the “phishing” scam.
Carefully check the emails for links. Use the View Source command of your web browser to look at the ACTUAL web address to which you are being directed — as opposed to the VISIBLE address, which may be completely different.
NEVER enter your username or password in response to a link you follow in an email message. It is simply too dangerous. Instead, go directly to the desired web site using either a bookmark or a manually entered URL.
PayPal has never sent me any email of the kind you are mentioning, as far as I can recall.
Regards,
Ralph
Yes, it was undoubtedly from PayPal. It was sent to a unique email address that I only used for PayPal and was not posted anywhere on the internet. The email also originated from an IP address that belongs to PayPal.
But your warning about phishing is a good one that everyone should be more aware of!