Just an FYI for those who may not be net-savvy yet. It's that time again when the chuckleheaded scum of the world try their little PayPal schemes. Received an e-mail that was supposedly from service@paypal.com with a link to click to take you to the paypal site. Of course, the link would take you to some bogus site. What a bunch of losers. Anyway, sent the e-mail to PayPal and got a response from them. Below is the original e-mail and after that the e-mail from Paypal: Dear PayPal user, We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your PayPal account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party. Protecting the security of your account and of the PayPal network is our primary concern. Therefore, as a prevention measure, we have temporarely limited access to sensitive PayPal account features. Please click on the link below to confirm your information: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run For more information about how to protect your account, please visit PayPal's Security Center, accessible via the "Security Center" link located at the bottom of each page of the PayPal website. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire PayPal system. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Sincerely, The PayPal Team Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the header of any page. -------- Paypal's response to my sending them the letter: Dear Donald Holman, Thank you for contacting PayPal. Thank you for bringing this suspicious email to our attention. We can confirm that the email you received; was not sent to you by PayPal. The website linked to this email is not a registered URL authorized or used by PayPal. We are currently investigating this incident fully. Please do not enter any personal or financial information into this website. If you have surrendered any personal or financial information to this fraudulent website, you should immediately log into your PayPal Account and change your password and secret question and answer information. Any compromised financial information should be reported to the appropriate parties. If you notice any unauthorized activity associated with your PayPal transaction history, please immediately report this to PayPal by following the instructions below: 1. Go to https://www.paypal.com/ 2. Click on the Security Center at the bottom of the page 3. Click on "Report a Problem" 4. Select the Topic: Report Fraud 5: Select the Subtopic: Unauthorized use of my PayPal Account, and click Continue. 6. Follow the instructions to access the appropriate form If you have any further questions, please let us know. Sincerely, The PayPal Team This email is sent to you by the contracting entity to your User Agreement, either PayPal Inc or PayPal (Europe) Limited. PayPal(Europe) Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the UK as an electronic money institution. -=>Donald

Ooh thank you Donald! your a life saver!

Note that the quote from the original scam email appears to be missing the critical detail. You have to look at the actual URL, not the label which the browser will display. And then there are some tricks in how a URL can be written which will obscure the actual destination. I have several different userIDs on my machine. Most of the stuff hits all of them, not just the one I use for Paypal

I am calling the Pope immediately. This Papal Scandal will not be tolerated!!!

Just to add to the detail -- one recent Paypal scam has used "Paypa1" instead of "Paypal". Look very closely at the fonts you use if you don't see a difference; they are different. It isn't like the old days when some typewriters didn't have a numeral-1 key, and people used lowercase-l.