Paypal Scam going 'round

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…

Hell, it probably WAS from PayPal - the biggest scam artists on the internet.

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.

Yeah, I got something like that yesterday, asking for “information.” I checked the headers and it obviously didn’t come from Paypal.

There was a link, but I think they screwed it up. I reported them to Paypal and my ISP.

There was a recent thread in the pit about this. No big deal, Just keep your eyes open.

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.

WHOA!

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. . .

And I thought I was a veteran 'Net surfer. . .

Tripler
Show you how much I know. . .

I have to ask the question though. . .

Did anyone ever get an e-mail to fax information in?

I may have fallen for that one. :mad: Although, my information will change soon enough anyhow. . .

Tripler
The benefits of moving every two years. :smiley: