Solve : Posible PayPay e-mail scam??

1.	Solve : Posible PayPay e-mail scam??
Answer» I have received e-mail that claims to be from PayPal. It wants me to provide information that would let somebody have my social security number. Here is why I think it is a scam. If PayPal wants to send me a message, taht can do it INSIDE o my account. There is an area for that. When they do send me e-mails, it is as just a reminder and never for more information. They expect me to go directly to the pay-pal site, not some other location. My questions: Has this ever been found in your e-nail? And how do I REPORT this as a scam? Have you ever heard of "phishing"? GEEK you should know better... Quote from: PATIO on September 19, 2017, 04:15:50 PM Geek you should know better... Yes, I almost fell for it. I just want to SEE what others have noticed. I think this might be from somebody who once worked for PayPal. Or somebody who did some research first. No...that;s not it Geek. Quote from: Geek-9pm on September 19, 2017, 06:05:28 PM Yes, I almost fell for it. I just want to see what others have noticed. I think this might be from somebody who once worked for PayPal. Or somebody who did some research first. Or from anybody who has seen an E-mail from paypal and can thus trivially reproduce it with their own information. Quote from: BC_Programmer on September 19, 2017, 07:06:57 PM Or from anybody who has seen an E-mail from paypal and can thus trivially reproduce it with their own information. Well, my defense is that I do not have a criminal mind and I would not have thought that it was that easy. It is.

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I have received e-mail that claims to be from PayPal. It wants me to provide information that would let somebody have my social security number.

Here is why I think it is a scam. If PayPal wants to send me a message, taht can do it INSIDE o my account. There is an area for that.

When they do send me e-mails, it is as just a reminder and never for more information. They expect me to go directly to the pay-pal site, not some other location.

My questions:
Has this ever been found in your e-nail?
And how do I REPORT this as a scam?
Have you ever heard of "phishing"?
GEEK you should know better... Quote from: PATIO on September 19, 2017, 04:15:50 PM

Geek you should know better...

Yes, I almost fell for it. I just want to SEE what others have noticed.
I think this might be from somebody who once worked for PayPal. Or somebody who did some research first.

No...that;s not it Geek. Quote from: Geek-9pm on September 19, 2017, 06:05:28 PM

Yes, I almost fell for it. I just want to see what others have noticed.
I think this might be from somebody who once worked for PayPal. Or somebody who did some research first.

Or from anybody who has seen an E-mail from paypal and can thus trivially reproduce it with their own information. Quote from: BC_Programmer on September 19, 2017, 07:06:57 PM

Or from anybody who has seen an E-mail from paypal and can thus trivially reproduce it with their own information.

Well, my defense is that I do not have a criminal mind and I would not have thought that it was that easy. It is.

Solve : Posible PayPay e-mail scam??

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