I just received an email that looked very, very legit, supposidly from Paypal. It had the colors and everything, including a little blurb at the bottom like you usually find in official emails. It asks for your bank info, PIN (for verification), and your SS#. The addy it was sent from even reads as paysecurity@paypal.com
I’ve reported it, but who knows if it’ll ever be stopped, so I’m just trying to get the word out…
I’m very very wary with PayPal now; the other day I sent a payment to someone who had the Paypal payment stuff embedded into his own web page; I couldn’t bring myself to trust it this way, so I went direct to Paypal and sent it from there.
sailor, thank you, I never visit the Pit, and I had no idea a thread had been started about it. Looks like I need to start popping in every now and then…
It’s common to embed a Paypal button in a website – Paypal provides personalized buttons for merchants. Easy to tell if it’s a scam, too – if the website it takes you to doesn’t start with https://www.paypal.com, quit right there.
I’ve had nothing but good experiences with Paypal, personally.
I just got lit up by this one, even after reading this thread. . .
I input only my e-mail address and credit card number, thinking it was the real site, and got a 404 Message. butrscotch, thanks for the heads up. I immediately put my credit card on hold and tagged it with a new password, just to be sure. . .