# Might this be a PayPal scam?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-this-be-a-paypal-scam/292310>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 28, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-this-be-a-paypal-scam/292310 "2005-02-28T15:58:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-this-be-a-paypal-scam/292310/21 "2005-03-01T18:51:17Z")

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> [@Podkayne](#):
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> My husband said, “Don’t know that you should _never_ click on a link in an e-mail?” He insisted, that, no if it really was an OFFICIAL e-mail from the who it claimed to be from, he would have _had_ to click on the link, or he would be in breech of contract or something . . . and he could not be dissuaded from this.
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> Something about proximity to a computer monitor just makes some people dumb.

Apparently so! Breech of contract??? Where the heck did he get that idea from?

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**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-this-be-a-paypal-scam/292310/22 "2005-03-01T21:06:02Z")

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> [@whiterabbit](#):
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> Apparently so! Breech of contract??? Where the heck did he get that idea from?

I may be misrepresenting his argument . . . I heard about it secondhand via my husband, who was thoroughly exasperated, and I figured if I asked him about it directly, I’d probably just get exasperated, too. But the jist seemed to be that he thought he was legally obligated in some way to click on any link they sent him in order to give them any information they were asking for, like if they’d sent him a letter in the mail, he’d have to respond to the address they told him to direct his correspondence to. Or. . . I don’t know . . . something.

I’ve always been tempted to dangle a worm in front of him for entertainment.

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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-this-be-a-paypal-scam/292310/23 "2005-03-02T12:49:39Z")

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Nah. The worm would be gone in an instant.

Put him in a Skinner Box. He could peck all day for seeds — if you kept the tasking simple.

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