Pay Pal

I use pay pal for some things, I have it linked to a secondary email account, for the last 2 days I have received alerts purporting to be from pay pal to my main email account, I do have this listed with pay pal as a second point of contact, stating there is a problem, this morning it told me I was temporarily locked out. I have logged on to pay pal, not through the link kindly provided, and there is no problem with the site, I have not received any such alerts to my pay pal primary e mail. So some sort of scam that will want all my details , as it is a minor account I set up to specifically for pay pal if they get in I think there`s about £13 in there.

 

Forward the Email to [email protected]. They will deal with it.

 

Yes have done that @Palustris

 

You can also ring them. I have twice recently, and got through straight away. Very helpful.

 

I 'think' you have be be careful with some websites too! Wasn't there a spoof HMRC site??

 

Regarding the PayPal emails, the return address even looks genuine, BUT the domain is not paypal.co.uk (or .com) but in fact paypai.com (or co.uk) but they use an upper case "i" so it comes out looking like a "l". That does fool most email programs, but using a pre-email viewer such as MailWasher actually shows the, in this case, spoofed email address.

 

They`re still at it received today.
Your Account Will Be Limited , Until We Here From You .

I am here, you will not hear from me.

 

They won't know that your email account is not the Paypal one, they will just be sending it speculatively to every email address that they have acquired / from wherever - even to people who do not have a Paypal account at all. Similar think with the banks, telling you that your account with Nat West has a problem - only 20%, or whatever, of recipients will actually bank with Nat West, but they don't care. If 1% of those click on the link then ... Job Done

If someone pays you via Paypal, then you (or eBay or whoever) will have given them your Paylpal email address. If they get a virus that can "harvest" all the email addresses they have corresponded with ... that will be enough to get your [real] Paypal email address onto a list that is then sold & traded. If you ever click through a link in a spam email then that will tell them that the address is "real", and it will then be exchanged / traded / sold more :(

When I start getting spam on my eBay or Paypal email addresses I change them (I can have ANYTHING@MyEMailDomain ) so that the TO address on an EMail has to be the current, valid one, for me to take any notice ... and then I am cautious.

If an EMail from eBay / Paypal [I think this applies to both of them??] does not refer to you by your first name then it is not genuine ...

 

Not anymore

 

True Zigs I spent about £10, so must remember to put cash in before I pay for anything else.

 

Even with emails which look official, I never click on the links. If paypal/ebay/other have anything to tell you it'll be in the relevant message box when you log in. I always ignore the email link & log in independently to see, if I'm not sure. Usually though there are blinding grammatical or spelling errors in the emails though :D Alliance & Lester? Of course I bank with you...!