PayPal Scam

[spock]

Since our community has been known to be ripped off by the occasional scammer and recasters aren't always the most honest people in the world to begin with, I figured to pass this along.
Recently, a man was selling a watch and received several responses that requested it be shipped a considerable distance. A purchaser offered a price a little higher than was posted and asked that it be sent following confirmation from PayPal that the money was placed into the seller's account. An official looking confirmation was received from PayPal, by the seller, with the logo and all the trimmings, that the money was transferred to his account. Fortunately, for him, he checked with PayPal and found no money placed in his account.
I get emails from Verizon, and such, constantly that look pretty legit, but turn out to be bogus.
Just sayin' !

[brandonlowe2]

Anytime I get an email from PayPal, Verizon, eBay, or pretty much anywhere, asking to log in for any reason at all I always go direct to their website to log in (instead of clicking the link in the email) because if there is truly a problem or reason to need to log in and update anything it will be posted in your account as soon as you log in. I learned about "phishing" emails the hard way years ago

[highwayman57]

I use Thunderbird as my email program on my computer and it has a nice little function; when you hover the cursor over a link in an email, the exact web address of the link is displayed at the bottom corner of the screen. If I see that a suspicious email has an actual web address such as "www.JoesWebSite/PayPal", I know for sure it's fake and I forward the email to PayPal's security department (spoof@paypal.com). Also, some obvious signs of a phishing email include poor spelling and/or grammar, and no use of your real name (PayPal will always address you by name in their emails).

The important thing is you have to be vigilant and help guard yourself from phishing attacks.