Pay Pal Imposters

I've got this e-mail today with header: Your Account Is Temporarily Limited.

Thanks, Viktor......me,too........I deleted..........PPAL don't send those, ever

paypal doesn't send anything at all. i was frozen then banned --- they didn't send a thing. i couldn't deposit money there, they didn't bother telling me. i almost bounced a check to the gov. because of them. so anything you get - assume its fraud.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

I also get that letter about once a month,...I immediately delete it,....they are phishing for takers.

I go to paypal via correct channels if I ever question what's happening there.

I haven't had any bad experiences with paypal ,...have used them since 2000

I bounce in there every once in awhile to see if all looks normal,...so far so good.

They field my FAA payments just fine with no complaints to date.

If anyone absolutely has to contact me for anything pf an account nature,.they can ask I securely log on at the official site,...or ..they can phone or use snail mail to ask the same.

Some of these scam me-mails they send can look pretty official too.

Marty Saccone

Thanks for the heads up!

I rec'd that email a couple of weeks ago, and deleted it. Then went into Paypal through their official website. According to that, everything with my account was squared-away and needed no correcting.

I've rec'd that fake email more than once also.

not true for over 2 years now i receive monthly e-mail statements from pay pal ,also no matter if i transfer funds to my bank or using pay pal to make purchases you receive e-mails stating what it is that you did.

Not true I just got an email from paypal 2 days ago that my card on file was to expire, it was legit!

Please forward Paypal phishing attempts to their fraud address. More here: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/security/report-problem

NEVER click on a link in an e mail from paypal, legit or otherwise.
Always type in paypal.com and start fresh.
That one simple rule will keep you out of harm's way.

i got one this morning to a bank i never been in. telling me i have to check on some kind of quarterly thing and they didn't bother giving me a live link, nor did it match the emails. a rather lazy scammer.

but these things fool people all the time. one bank will send out messages that your card was hacked, and those are real, others are not. if you don't have that bank it makes it easy. the fedex/mail/ups notice of packages couldn't be delivered, they look real, but those places don't have your email, and they wouldn't tell you if it wasn't delivered. yet if you were expecting something they might have gotten that person.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

not lazy, Mike, just hoping you will respond and ask for a link....they only want to know that the e mail address is 'live.'
Kinda like answering your phone to a garbage call...the system just wants to verify a live line so they can not waste time communicating with nobody at the other end....

I have been with PayPal from their start up year.

I get a dozens of emails every month form PayPal, thousands of them over the years. I never open any email from PayPal, NEVER! Even the legitimate ones.

If I want to see what is going on in my PayPal account, I log in. There is no reason in the world to ever open an email from PayPal. If you get an email from PayPal that you feel you need to open, DON"T do it. Just go log into your account. That is the only way to communicate with PayPal. If you log in and still have questions, call them. I find PayPal people some of the most responsive and helpful people to deal with on the phone of all of the people I deal with via the net.

I never use the PayPal credit card, or checks (do they issue paper checks). I never use their ATM. I limit my PayPal transactions to getting paid and only occasionally paying for products and I have a separate account for that. I was hesitant to give my PayPal account to FAA in the beginning but the guy that told me about FAA is one of their better sellers and he swore by them. He had been here quit some time and he just loved it. Still does.

I also never open emails from any of the banks I do business with or credit card companies. Never! If I think the email is legit, I log in or call the company directly.

The is really no need to open 85% of the email that you get. Most of it is worthless and a lot of it is trying to scam you.

Here's another tip for you.

If you get a telephone call form your bank, DON'T tell them anything unless you know the guy that you are talking to, which is not going to be the case with a credit card company.

I don't even identify myself. I Give them nothing. By law the have to identify themselves. The do not have to give you information other then who they are and they probably won't if you do not properly identify yourself. But you now have the company name. If you think there is a problem. Log into you account or call them and tell them you just got a call form them. They will tell you if they just called about some sort of real issue or not. What they may not know about are legit sales calls trying to sell you something they offer, insurance, get a new card with a larger limit, etc, etc. I don't want to talk to these people anyway.

Also keep in mind that you are still ten times more likely to be ripped off by giving your credit card to a waiter in a restaurant than giving to someone on line. They take your card, disappear and they have the card and the security code.

I just had one of my cards compromised and was talking to the security people. I asked if that was still the case and he said yes it was. But he said they are also getting better at picking up on those things.

Floyd, that's called skimming. My wife's card was compromised like this on a vacation once. We don't put pins on our cards, somehow they called the CC company and managed to con them into setting a pin the proceeded to make large cash withdrawls from Canadian ATMs.. Not too long after than we changed credit cards. Not because of the skimming incident, they handled that fine, but because they allowed a stranger to set a pin on the card.

The rule of thumb on PayPal e-mails is that if it's legit, they will always use your full name at the beginning of the e-mail. If it's anything other than your full name (Hello, Dear Sir, etc.), it's a scam pure and simple.

Tom, I also receive my monthly PayPal statement and it's a good thing to get and check over. I also get a notification when they have transferred monies to my bank. I've received those phishing emails from oh so many faux companies...PayPal, WalMart, Bank of America, Walgreens and CVS (I just won another FAKE $100 coupon for Walgreens today! lol), car insurance companies....so so many. After a while you can see the grammar is off, the logo is not crisp, the whole email is a graphic that has been copied and pasted. Many times the Walgreens type ones will have in smaller print at the bottom 'this is an advertisement, and if you want to unsubscribe...', etc. But, Paypal and other financial types are not going to use language like 'your account has been limited'....just what the heck does that mean anyway? lol Banks and other financial institutions are going to contact you via US mail. Government agencies will contact you via US mail. I delete so many emails before I get to read the 6 or 8 actual real emails I get each time I check my mail. And my spam filter catches a lot of them too, but not all.

You just can't totally get around the crap one has to put up with when you have email.