> Never respond to any email that claims to be from PayPal. If it has a link
> you
> can click in the email then it's NOT FROM PayPal, it's from a swindler
> hoping
> to trick you into revealing your login information so they can hijack your
> PayPal account. If you click on the link in the email it takes you to a
> web
> page that looks exactly like the PayPal login site, but it's not. If you
> "login" on that site you've just given your login information to a crook
> and
> your PayPal account will be hijacked and the password changed within
> minutes,
> locking you out of your own PayPal account.
>
> The same trick is used with eBay accounts, and many popular online banking
> sites. The general rule is for any financial site that requires you to
> login DO
> NOT click a link in an email to get to that site. Use your own bookmarks,
> or
> type in the www address into your browser.
>
> And above all, do NOT allow yourself to be intimidated into clicking on
> those
> email links with threats like "You account has been suspended" or "We've
> detected fraudulent activity in your account."
>
> They way to tell if you are being directed to the real PayPal page is to
> look
> at the status bar on the bottom of the browser page while you hover your
> mouse
> over the link. If it says "
http://www.paypal.com/" it's legit. If it says
> ANYTHING else, like "
http://56.24.19..../.../paypal/signin/...." If there
> is
> ANYTHING before the first appearance of "paypal" in the URL, especially a
> string of numbers, then it is NOT the real PayPal site you are being
> directed
> to.
>
> --gary
>
> --- Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys, I don't know what larger group to address than this one. Is
>> anyone
>> familiar with PayPal? Is it as sucky as I think it is?
>>
>> I keep getting what I think is SPAM from "paypal," telling me that
>> someone
>> else has added his or her name to my account. Or that I need to update
>> my
>> account. Since I hadn't paid through paypal for a year, I assumed it was
>> SPAM. Recently, though, I purchased a book from them, the book arrived
>> from
>> England, and it charged me seventeen pounds. Didn't PayPal pay the
>> publishers????
>>
>> Has anyone else encountered such problems from them?
>>
>> I'm afraid to update their file on me (they want my credit card number)
>> because I can't tell if this is a fraudulent page or not. And there's no
>> way
>> to contact them.
>>
>> Help!
>>
>> Sally
>>
>