With all the paypaling going on around here lately, I just wanted to alert you guys to the latest paypal fraud.
This morning I received an e-mail saying "a new address has been added to your paypal account". When I clicked the link to verify, a screen that looks IDENTICAL to the paypal screen came up and asked me to verify my credit card and bank account #s. Being that everything looked right I almost typed in all the info. I'm not sure what stopped me, but I first tried going to my account on this page, when nothing came up I then realized that this was a fraudulent e-mail. I called paypal and then forwarded the e-mail to them. The paypal guy on the phone just seemed annoyed that I had called.
Another statement on a recording said that paypal will never ask for that kind of info via e-mail and that any e-mail sent would address you by your 1st name (this one didnt).
Be careful. If you do receive an e-mail like this forward it to spoof @paypal.com.
