[mack]

Is this legit? It says its from www.paypal.com

"

Dear valued PayPal® member:



It has come to our attention that your PayPal® account information needs to be
updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes
out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into
any future problems with the online service.


However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before April 3, 2005.

Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal® session will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal.

To update your PayPal® records click on the following link:



Thank You.
PayPal® UPDATE TEAM

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal® will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.

Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside"

 

[MudGrrl]

no

this is not legit



if you do send anything to them, send them a xerox of your naughty bits

 

[McGRP01]

Forward that email to spoof@paypal.com, and they'll email you back telling you if it's legit or not. 99% of the time they're not.

 

[MMcG]

That is not legit - if it were legit they'd use your full name and not dear Paypal user.

 

[I Are Baboon]

I deleted the link in case someone was going to be stupid enough to click it and follow the instructions.

 

[binary visions]

Anytime an email suggests you click on the following link to do anything, it's not legit. A legit email suggests that you log into their account on their website. Which, to me, means I manually type into the address bar, "http://www.paypal.com".

 

[MudGrrl]

I deleted the link in case someone was going to be stupid enough to click it and follow the instructions.

you mean I wasn't supposed to give them my routing number from my life savings?


dmn!

 

[BikeGeek]

Crap! There went all the jersey deposits.

 

[mack]

Oh ok thanks. IT would of had me because it was from www.paypal and not some strange URL.

If some one gets your pay pal account they can only get what is in it, right? Or can they acess your credit card and drain the thing dry?

 

[DamienC]

Crap! There went all the jersey deposits.

Heh heh....you're using that vendor from Nigeria right?

 

[BikeGeek]

Oh ok thanks. IT would of had me because it was from www.paypal and not some strange URL.

If some one gets your pay pal account they can only get what is in it, right? Or can they acess your credit card and drain the thing dry?

Usually the link in the email says "www.paypal.com" but if you check the link properties you'll see that it's actually sending you somewhere else. Once they get access to your paypal account they have access to any accounts that are tied to it.

 

[binary visions]

Oh ok thanks. IT would of had me because it was from www.paypal and not some strange URL.

If some one gets your pay pal account they can only get what is in it, right? Or can they acess your credit card and drain the thing dry?

If you have credit cards or bank accounts linked to your Paypal account, they can take anything that's in them since they just have to make a transfer into your Paypal account.