I always buy my work shoes (Adidas size 10) on ebay cuz I'm too lazy/busy.....OK....too lazy to go to Spormart...sorry, Sports Authority (remind me never to shop THERE again).

Anyway, I use PayPal and as I went to pay, I was asked to re-enter my credit card info and select a new password. This is the first time they have ever asked for this to be done in the 2 years I've been using PP.

Now, this is no phishing expedition...something I got as a scam e-mail...this was as I went to pay. I tried to navigate other links but was not able to. So, needless to say, I did not enter new info.

I'm sure it's legit...but has anyone else been asked to do this?

Of course, there's no way to verify this by actually speaking to anyone at PayPal...cuz you simply can't do that.

Clam
Try zappos.com as they have an enormous selection of shoes and charge no tax or shipping and if you need to return the shoes they pay return shipping. Neither my husband nor I buy shoes anywhere else. They take any credit card and absolutely no grief.

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Originally posted by Clamato:
Anyway, I use PayPal and as I went to pay, I was asked to re-enter my credit card info and select a new password. This is the first time they have ever asked for this to be done in the 2 years I've been using PP.

Now, this is no phishing expedition...something I got as a scam e-mail...this was as I went to pay. I tried to navigate other links but was not able to. So, needless to say, I did not enter new info.

I'm sure it's legit...but has anyone else been asked to do this?

Of course, there's no way to verify this by actually speaking to anyone at PayPal...cuz you simply can't do that.

One of the following has happened:

• A paypal cookie on your computer, or part of (one of many) .DAT files in your browser cache has been erased that contains your username, password and CC#.

• A paypal cookie on your computer has expired (if you haven't used it in a while).

• A persistent user cookie on the paypal server went nuts, and can't access the stored cookie or .DAT file on your machine that has your CC# and username and password.

• Paypal has instituted a new user cookie that replaces the old one and doesn't have your info stored in it yet.

• The last time you used the service, the "Do you want Windows to remember the password for you?" was not checkmarked.

• The proper site IP number has been re-written in your computer, and you got hookered into a scam site pfishing for your password.

Hope it wasn't the last one.

Turns out it was a legit function that PP wanted me to do. Why? Because when I was being phished I responded to their e-mail with a hardy FU.

Apparently, if you respond to a phony PayPal e-mail...they have some way of knowing it and ask that you reset your password. I miss that old password something fierce.

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Originally posted by Clamato:
Apparently, if you respond to a phony PayPal e-mail...they have some way of knowing it and ask that you reset your password. I miss that old password something fierce.

That doesn't make sense.

I don't have nor have ever used PayPal. Yet, I get "their" email notices every other day. None of those notices are ever real, are they? I've never even opened one to read it. Even when I don't get any PayPal email notice, there's always a cookie left with the filename "paypal.txt" in my cache evey day. I delete those daily too.

I just discovered a new way to have criminal dudes separate you from your money.

Got an e-mail from PayPal that looked like a receipt for a payment of $370 out of my PP account. Had my name on it, etc. Logged into my PP account through their site and didn't see the transaction.

Knew something was up at that point and called PP. Apparently, they are hoping that you hit the link to question or dispute the charge and log in via their spoof mail. Then they have your user name and password...and money.

Very, very.....very.....clever.

Didn't work on me, though.

It almost did. As such, you are almost a moron.

If you can't tell, I am still pissed about you jinxing my Saab.

I wonder if agnes sent that e-mail to me?

She may have.

Is your wife back from meat, meat and meat?

Did she pay for dinner with PayPal?

Just tried to call her. As you know...I am suspicious of her present company. BTW, after meeting him...do you think I can beat Fish up? Keep in mind that I have a low center of gravity.

They wanted human meat?

As far as Fish goes, I think that he would take you...quite quickly too. Not Tyson fast, but fast.

Fish = tall and fit
Clam = not that tall and not that fit

In case you were wondering, he didn't use paypal for the drinks though.

Have you taken the leg strength into account? And what about the low center of gravity? Did you think about that? And...there is something wrong with me upstairs. So...maybe that evens it up?

MR is afraid of me.

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Originally posted by Clamato:
Have you taken the leg strength into account? And what about the low center of gravity? Did you think about that? And...there is something wrong with me upstairs. So...maybe that evens it up?

MR is afraid of me.

Don't worry clam, I am a pacifist.

Hi guys, I have a quick question about Paypal emails. Once in a while I will buy something on ebay - probably twice a year or so. Well, over the last few days I've been recieving emails from them asking me to re-enter my info since there is a payment due to me. Thing is, I am confused because my old computer crashed a few months ago and I don't remember if/when I sold some items. I remember selling a few items, but not exaclty when, and I don't remember collecting the money (although I really think I DID.) It wouldn't be like me to let it go this long.

So what would you do? If it's legit I want to cash out of course. But something tells me this is a scam, especially after reading the other posts.

Advice please...

I get those too and have never used paypal. Run don't walk away from those. Hit delete now! It sounds like Clam's situation was different though.

Yeah never respond to e-mails asking for personel information especially credit card or bank account information.I haven't gotten these from PayPal but I have gotten them from Amazon.

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Originally posted by motherof3inGE:
Hi guys, I have a quick question about Paypal emails. Once in a while I will buy something on ebay - probably twice a year or so. Well, over the last few days I've been recieving emails from them asking me to re-enter my info since there is a payment due to me. Thing is, I am confused because my old computer crashed a few months ago and I don't remember if/when I sold some items. I remember selling a few items, but not exaclty when, and I don't remember collecting the money (although I really think I DID.) It wouldn't be like me to let it go this long.

So what would you do? If it's legit I want to cash out of course. But something tells me this is a scam, especially after reading the other posts.

Advice please...

This is the new way. No longer saying that you are about to have your priviledges suspended...but telling you that you paid for something big or have money coming. People who are not smart enough to go to their PP account and check their history will log into the spoof e-mail...and have their $$$ stolen.

Clever SOBs.

Again, I don't paypal or eBay - ever.

Besides always having a myname@paypal.txt cookie in my browser cache everyday, and despite never navigating to anything eBay, I continue to get every varied Paypal scammed email one could dream of. They always come from spoofed & real looking addresses. Be careful out there.

And every day, I clean them all out. I never open them.

Paypal = bad news in my book.

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Originally posted by GESince1958:
Again, I don't paypal or eBay - ever.

Besides always having a myname@paypal.txt cookie in my browser cache everyday, and despite never navigating to anything eBay, I continue to get every varied Paypal scammed email one could dream of. They always come from spoofed & real looking addresses. Be careful out there.

And every day, I clean them all out. I never open them.

Paypal = bad news in my book.

If you are getting constant emails and pop ups from sites such as Pay Pal, etc., check out Webroot’s Spy Sweeper and dump Symantec’s Virus etc, for AVG free edition and you will have absolutely no more problems. I learned this the hard way, but everyday my Spy Sweeper finds 3 to 10 spyware’s installed on my computer and removes them. It is hard to believe that Microsoft and Symantec are not the cutting edge, but these are light years better.

One of my earlier recommendations on these still stands. Upgrade to XP, remove administrator privileges from all but one user. Also I've gotten to like Firefox as a browser.
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