Fake PayPal Warning!

[MovieStuff]

This is serious!

I've received many fake PayPal emails that attempt to get you to log in with your pass word, etc. but I've always spotted them right off. However, today I got one that was very sneaky: It says, "You have a complaint!" and then instructs you to click a link to a page that looks just like a real PayPal page and all the links on this "fake" page connect to REAL PayPal pages. It will even take you to your real PayPal account page after you log in!

Obviously, I take my reputation very serious so the potential for a complaint really caught me off guard and I fell for the scam. Fortunately, I realize within minutes what happened and immediately changed my password in my profile so no damage was done.

If you receive an email like this, do not log in. If you already have fallen for it, then do not hesitate: Change your password right away in your "profiles" section. If the entity that scammed my password had been given enough time, they could have then changed it to a password that only THEY knew and I would have been powerless to do anything about it and they could then withdraw funds from my PayPal account without anything to stop them.

Anyway, take note and don't fall for the scam!

Roger

[Scott Spears]

Thanks for the heads up.

Scott

[Customline]

I've seen that as well. They do a prety good job of making it look like real Paypal!

[Alex]

Paypal is a secure site. This means that when you go to their site there is an "s" that follows the http. So the url starts with https: rather than simply http:

I'm curious if the fraudulent paypal had the s at the end of the http and if that is a valid way to see if one is being scammed. Is looking for the "S" (which stands for secure) a safe strategy?

[MovieStuff]

No, it didn't have the "s", as in "https". I simply didn't stop to look at the URL like I normally do. What made this one different was that it looked exactly like the real thing, all the links were geniune and it then forwarded me to my real account. Again, if I had looked at the URL, I would have noticed but they really pulled a slick one this time.

Roger

[Alex]

The good news is the letter s is always a good failsafe to check for authenticity.

I think I got one of those ebay emails a month ago but I ignored it because I just didn't believe that ebay has the resources to update everyone's information unless it's some kind of automatic softward update.

If it's autogenerated, then I generally will auto ignore it. But I came really close to clicking on the link and checking it out.