PayPal? I don't use PayPal?

Answer the email telling them that, and see who responds...

Dont understand Letty...is the email from PayPal?

What account---the Paypal account you dont have?

There is a hoax email going around that looks like its from PayPal.

Don't answer that at all Letty! It's really a hoax - PayPal like any other serious company would never ask such per email!

Thanks Walter, Quinn, and Deb. I'll just delete it...

Happy Holiday yawl

See you in a couple of days..

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/paypal.asp

NEVER, NEVER give credit card or banking information by E Mail. No reputable company asks for such information by E Mail.

It is spam. I got one myself. One of my favorites of this genre arrives periodically. Purporting to be from my bank, it tells me my credit card has been charged a specific amount, then asks me to reply with my credit card number and expiration date. Right...

I got this too.
The other night on the news the had an internet alert. Two different banks had been targeted, when customers went to their sites, a pop up screen came up asking for an update of their account info. This was of course a scam, but a potentially dangerous one.
Here is an article I found it explains both scams.
http://www.digitaldefence.ca/html/article_306.shtml

The best advise is never open any email that you don't recognize as being legit. I'm even leary about some email I receive from friends that have attachments.

well, im waiting for my 40 million from Dr Bono Nobo of Nigeria, and all I hadda do was send my account numbers so he could deposit the 40 mil. Im gonna throw a big party and fly yall in fer it.

I got one from Yahoo which needed me to update my credit card information, or my email account would be stopped. I put a block on their address. Those spammers will try anything.

I once received an email, which I happened to open because it was without an attachment and my OS was Macintosh, whose announcement was that a lottery, of somewhere in Europe, fell on me, which I had not bought (probably some million). I immediately deleted it from the mail server and my machine.

I got a virus alert from Corrie (remember Corrie from Abuzz?) warning about a new virus that did have the name PayPal in it.

There are two PayPal alerts. The first one is asking for personal info, and the second one is a virus.

BTW, PayPal sent out a notice informing customers that they never ask for personal info by email, and to make sure that the adress line shows <http://www.PayPal.com>. Other senders are unable to use their email address.

Oh my!

Woah, that's dangerous counsel.

ANYONE can send email and make it look like it comes from their address and it's very easy (requiring no computer skills).

When they say to verify the URL they are talking about when you log in to your account through your browser, not email.

For example, it would be easy for someone to send you an email with paypal.com as the return address (forging this header). In the email they could have a link that looks like paypal.com but that directs you to a different site.

e.g.

www.paypal.com

That's a link to Able2Know's home page.

Now if they trick you into getting to a page they control they will have that page designed exactly like paypal hoping you will log in (and send them your account name and password through their page).

So paypal is saying to make sure that whenever you enter your password, you ONLY do it on a a page on the paypal.com website. Do not enter it on any other variation, someone could easily register something similar to paypal and then pull the email trick.

As long as you never type that password in any emails or on webpages other than paypal.com you are safe from this very simple trick.

Oh my squared!!!!!

LOL, it's really very easy to avoid deb, just never give out the password through email and when logging in always make sure you are loggin in to the correct site and not just one designed the same way and that possibly has a similar name.

That's a good thing to remember for any site.

Yep. Thing is, I would never be fooled by crap email myself - but when people talk about it, I am horrified!!!!!!