[Shotimes] OT Paypal Scam??

BJamesjr@aol.com BJamesjr@aol.com
Mon, 02 Jun 2003 22:31:26 -0400


> It's a scam.  Paypal will never ask you to enter
> anything in an email.  If they need info from you,
> they'll link you to their secured web site.  If
> you dig into the HTML embedded in the message, you'll
> more than likely see the info you entered into the
> fields doesn't go to Paypal but somewhere else.  

My wife has gotten a couple of these types of messages that looked like they came from ebay.  She printed out the HTML and looked at it.  They link into the ebay website to display all of their little graphics, which makes it look exactly like a genuine ebay message.