I use paypal?

News to me...

Published on April 27, 2005 By Danny Bassette In Misc

Today I received a "Quarterly Statement Notice" claiming to be from paypal. Which I thought was rather odd, since I've never used paypal (or e-bay or anything else that would likely get them thinking I had an account). How can they notify me of my statement when I have no account? My first thought was scam, trying to get my information somehow for something illegalish. But the email looks good to me, and includes no links to strange and unusual websites. It does tell me to go to https://www.paypal.com/ and log in, but that seems appropriate to me. I think I'll file it with debt consolidation, breast implants, and other such junk mail for things I don't have/need (ie, delete and ignore, at least after posting this

).
So anyone else getting odd emails from paypal or am I special today?

Comments

ParaTed2k

on Apr 27, 2005

Who knows, maybe there is some cash in the mystery account also! ;~D

Course, if your luck ran anything like mine, you'd check it and the only thing there would be a coupon for a free breast implant. Only good if you have won $100,000 dollars from someone in Zimbabwe!! ;~D

Moderateman

on Apr 27, 2005

My wife gets those alla time on her biz account... watch yer back I believe this to be a sham

preacherman

on Apr 27, 2005

I am a member of Paypal... I get these emails quite frequently. I notified PayPal and they requested that I forward them the notification. They assured me that this email was not from their firm, and was in fact couterfit scam.

They do a professional job.

preacherman

Danny Bassette

on Apr 27, 2005

I figured it wasn't serious, but at the same time couldn't see how it was a scam. Either way I found it rather amusing

Cordelia

on Apr 28, 2005

It is amusing, but usually the scam ones have a link to some place you are supposed to log in, so it is a little bewildering. Sounds like you made the right decision, though.

As for me, I have been flooded with what appears to be spam at my work address lately - but I can't tell because it's all in Russian.

Manopeace

on Apr 28, 2005

I just love those scams.... to date there is at least $100,000,000,000 (one hundred billion) being transferred to my account from various Nigerian kings and Suha Arafat. If I ever disappear from JU... you'll know Im on a desert island with no internet connection

Danny Bassette

on Apr 28, 2005

Cordelia: The lack of a link was odd, yes. Maybe you should learn a new language? Then you can share with us what russian spam offers are like

Manopeace: You'd think with that sort of money you could get an internet connection anywhere. Enjoy your island

Sugar High Elf

on Apr 28, 2005

RUN!!! It's just another scam. But of course, you've already been told this... I just had to add my two cents.

Oh, and my computer doesn't like me again, thus, no Trillian, just so you know.

Danny Bassette

on Apr 28, 2005

I was starting to wonder what had happened to you. Slap it a few times, then it will work all better

Gene Nash

on Apr 28, 2005

I get similar things supposedly from eBay. I wonder what the purpose is since the links go back to eBay instead of some scam site? Like you, I can't figure that out.

I know mine are fake for two reasons, 1) while I have an eBay account, they are sent to an address eBay doesn't have. 2) The conditions they warn me about aren't true. For instance, I got one saying my credit card information wasn't correct so they would close my account within 7 days. Actually my credit card information has been wrong for 4 years and eBay has never bothered me about it at all.

Maybe they are from someone who hates eBay and PayPal and is trying to damage their reputation with their customers. If so, they just send this crap to every email addy they can find hoping to hit home and damage the businesses they hate. I guess that would explain why they use legit links -- to make it credible that it's actually eBay/PayPal messing with the poor bewildered customer.

foreverserenity

on Apr 28, 2005

A scam Danny, walk, run far away, wait, just press the delete button. I get them all the time. I now seem to have accounts in countries like, Africa, The UK, Jamaica (which wouldn't be far fetched)but I do not. I even get them from banks I used to have accounts with. I just usually trash them!

Sugar High Elf

on Apr 28, 2005

Slap my wonderful, beautiful computer? I would never hurt my precious, glorious computer. I love my computer. My computer is the best computer in the world. No other computer compares to my computer.

(maybe sweet-talking will work)

Danny Bassette

on Apr 28, 2005

Gene Nash: That almost makes sense as a reason for the email. Nice to know they keep up to date on things too

foreverserenity: hehe, already deleted it, did that right after posting this.
Sugar High Elf: Maybe that will work, but if not, since you appear to have an internet connection, you could install AIM/yahoo/whatever if trillian is being bad for you. Your computer, all up to you (after you finish your final of course

Sugar High Elf

on Apr 28, 2005

I'm on a different computer right now... but I'm going to buy a battery soon.

Yay for campus computers!!

dharmagrl

on Apr 30, 2005

I got those from Paypal all the time last year....it's a scam. I forwarded mine to Paypal's fraud department, and they sent me an email back saying that it was fraudulent.

I get ones from an agency claiming to be my bank as well, saying that my account is going to be frozen if I dont respond. It all looks really legit....until you read the text and see all the spelling mistakes.

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