posted on August 25, 2002 01:06:48 PM new
Earlier this week I got a new email address for my buying id, went to Paypal to change the email address.
Today I get an email from Paypal saying to log in immediately. Yes, I understand there are scams, so no, I did not click on the link in the email.
I have Paypal bookmarked so I can access the site easily. So I clicked on my bookmark in Netscape and this is what shows on the url line:
http://www.x.com/
What has happened? How can my bookmark address change? Please tell me what I should be looking for on my computer, a virus even though I have Norton? Did someobody hack my personal computer?
At the same time, esnipe won a bid for me and I received the Pay Now email to my new email address from Paypal. I click on the Pay Now button and it directs me to https://www.paypal.com. I paid for the auction, and then scrutinized my account history and everything seems ok in the account.
How did my bookmark change? Gosh, this makes me so nervous.
posted on August 25, 2002 01:24:50 PM new
I had a favorite ebay sellers auctions for sale in my favorites and it got changed all by itself to another ebayer !! Go figure !
As long as you didn't click onto link in that email ... you should be safe !
posted on August 25, 2002 01:29:49 PM new
No, the link in the email looked ok. It may have actually come from Paypal.
What I need to know, is how did the bookmark on my computer change? How can that happen? How can a bookmark go from https://www.paypal.com to http://www.x.com?
This is scary. How many of us have Paypal, Bidpay and whatever bookmarked on our computers, up on the Personal Toolbar so we can get to it real fast?
This is the email I got from Paypal. I did not click on the link.
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From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: <>
Subject:
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:00:18
Dear PayPal Member,
Please log into your PayPal account using the following link to confirm you are still an active PayPal user asap.
We are now requesting the password to the e-mail address you signed up to PayPal with. This is so our systems can confirm the confirmation e- mails off PayPal stay in your account because there has been a rise in the amount of fraudsters getting access to users e-mail addresses and deleting the Paypal confirmations. This is to protect you and ourselves. PayPal will use this information for fraud protection only.
Please do not edit any details.
This is our new yearly checkup process to screen any inactive accounts.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login- run
posted on August 25, 2002 03:15:17 PM new
Never mind. This is my day for being stupid.
My literate techie friend informed me that x.com is paypal.com. I forgot that, that way back when paypal started as x.com.
So I either made my bookmark way beck when and never noticed the x.com url until I got today's unusual email, or when I was cleaning cookies and such earlier this week the bookmark changed.
posted on August 25, 2002 04:50:36 PM new
I just changed my email address on paypal a week ago, never got an email like that, just an email to confirm. BTW, "Fraudsters" would stand out that it wasn't from Paypal - it's not a very professional word.
posted on August 25, 2002 09:17:56 PM new
I got to thinking. The first line is the url for when we log in to Paypal. The second line is the one that came in that email.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login- run
Is the only difference a real tiny one, in that the second line has a space before the word run?
How can the scammers get a link that is almost identical?
Also, my new email address is only three days old. I never emailed anyone. All I did was go into eBay, esnipe and Paypal to change my email address. I never emailed anyone with it. So how did I get this Paypal scam email so quickly, how did the scammers get my email address?
posted on August 26, 2002 09:49:07 AM new
just fishing off of ebay, I am sure. thank you very much for providing the comparison between the two links, by the way, that is VERY interesting.
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