Possible scam on Paypal?

[potsy]

Just looking again at my e-mails they have no links in them to click,and all instruct me to log in to my PP account to continue set-up.
Phew,think I'm OK.
As a PP newbie, can I ask do you always pay a fee to use the service or is there a way to send money fee free?

 

[Mark_Robson]

If it is a scam then it is very clever because the process is exactly what you follow when you verify a paypal account, except that Paypal give you an automated telephone call, as far as I remember.

 

[addictfreak]

There's a link somewhere on papal to forward suspicious e-mails to.
I would do that, they will reply and verify if its spoof e-mail.

I do remember money being paid into my wifes account in the same manner you describe. But if they already have your bank details then I would not enter them again.

If in doubt contact papal.

 

[addictfreak]

Sorry bloody predictive text. It should say paypal above!

 

[Brains]

I seem to remember this is the way that PayPal verify your account, so a good chance this is genuine.

 

[swee'pea99]

I seem to remember this is the way that PayPal verify your account, so a good chance this is genuine.

No, no, no. Seriously - wrong. Never never never respond to any email like this from paypal, 'your bank' or anyone else contacting you cold via email. Delete. Just delete. As others have said, if in doubt, open up your browser, go to the website and log on and go to your messages. If they want to contact you, that's how they'll do it. If they *really* want/need to contact you, they'll ring you.

It's a scam, end of.

 

[brokenbetty]

(service@paypal.co.uk is the official paypal uk address though, and anything that comes from that should be legit)

You can't rely on a correct email addresses being proof of the sender. You can put anything you want in the from field. It isn't verified.

 

[hackbike 666]

Used to get these sort of emails all the time....Nearly got caught once when I was very tired and wasn't thinking straight...Then I asked myself what the F am I doing.

 

[biggs682]

we have had one very similar and we logged on to pay pal direct rather than link and it all seems to be cosher , we have been asked to do 3 things and we are doing 1 of every couple of weeks waiting for the previous step to be done via pay pal and so far all ok . but have seen others where the L of paypal is done with an underscore rather than an L and that is a dodgy one as we contacted paypal and they admitted to not sending that one out .

 

[Arch]

If in doubt contact papal.

I'm sure His Holiness will bring down retribution on the scammers...

 

[accountantpete]

They asked me for the same details and simply credit your account with a few pence.

If you are worried complete the form with a false eBay password - if they pick it up it is genuine.

 

[Campfire]

You have to do this after a certain figure has been reached I think. I had the same thing. I rang them up and it was OK. I had a bigger problem that when I first joined Ebay I put my christian name/surname in the wrong boxes. This gave difficulties, a long drawn out phone call occurred, then then sent me written instructions, I carried it out and then it was sorted. I hate anything like this which is not straightforward, but all done now.

 

[Speicher]

Thanks to everyone for the advice on here. I will wait til my "spending" level gets much nearer the maximum they stipulate (before verification is needed). I only buy small, low value items on Ebay, and occassionally use Paypal for other things.

If they urgently wish to ask me again, I am sure they will contact me.

 

[Davidc]

I've had a couple of clever phishing scam emails supposedly from paypal. You can report them and forward them to an address which is on the Paypal web site. They don't seem to object at all if you send them one of their own genuine ones, which I did once.

 

[Speicher]

I looked for an e-mail address to forward it to, but could not see one. I only found the automated reply "person". I might have another look.