I have a PayPal account that, as far as I can recall, has only been used to pay my SDMB subscription. I got this email:
"So we can continue providing you with your account information electronically please provide your consent to our Electronic Communications Delivery Policy. Log in to your PayPal account and follow the steps below.
Hello xxxxxxxxxxx,
PayPal is updating the way we send you your account information. Please agree to our Electronic Communications Delivery Policy today. This ensures that we can continue providing you with your account information electronically, including transaction receipts, account statements, and annual disclosures."
Yes, if it is e-paypal.com, that’s likely someone phishing. e.paypal.com, on the other hand, should be completely legit.
Oslo Ostragoth, if there are links in the email to “login” or “accept”, etc., then probably a phishing attempt. If it just directs you to log onto paypal yourself, without any links to “help” you get there, probably legit.
BS. Paypal is actually asking for permission to do exactly that. If you’re paranoid, instead of following any links in the e-mail, just type www.paypal.com into a new browser window and sign on. Lo and behold, you’ll get a request to approve electronic document delivery.
It’s possibly a scam. I got this email too, complete with link to click. Only, I didn’t get it to the email address I use with PayPal. When I went to paypal.com and logged in manually, I got;
So it could be legit, or it could be phishers knowing paypal sent out an update and they’re playing on that.
But this one is a phish, because it’s to “Paypal user,” not whatever my name is on Paypal. And it’s sent to my Hotmail account, which isn’t the one I use for Paypal. So I was right that it was bogus, just for the wrong reason.
[QUOTE=Shakester;14099820
What they don’t do is provide links in emails, so any email that asks you to click on a link to log in is bogus. But send emails? Of course they do.[/QUOTE]
Not sure what you mean. All my Paypal receipts and shipment notices have hotlinks in them.
If you’re worried - and you have Chrome as your browser - then when you go to the website just look in the address bar. It says (with a green box around it) the name of the company, and shows that it is indeed a secure connection to the website you actually intended to go to.