JUST when I was over PayPal's lunacy, they email me this:
 

Dear valued PayPal member,

It has come to our attention, that your PayPal Billing Information records
are out of date. That requires you to update the Billing Information. If
you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update
your billing records, you will not run into any future problems with
PayPal's online service. However, failure to update your records will
result in account termination. Please update your records within the next
24 hours.

Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session will not
be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result
in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future
billing problems.

Please click here to update your billing records.

Thank you for your time

Best Regards
Marry Kimmel,
PayPal Billing Department Team



My reply?

Gee...maybe that is because, although I ONLY used my PayPal for bill-pay
and eBay, you guys CLOSED my account because I own an adult website.
Turds.

XOXOX
Kayla
http://www.KaylaCam.com ... Voted Favorite Amateur Porn Star of 2003...come

see WHY!

Kayla

That might be a paypal scam.....carefullll

was there a "link" in the email to click?

Dont click it might be a scam

That sure sounds like a scam to be. PayPal doesn't terminate accounts, they lock them down.

SpaceAce

Also, "... you will not run into..." sounds bogus.

SpaceAce

was thinkin the same thing :2 cents:

Kayla i suggest if you clicked anything to go ASAP into paypal and change your passwords and such only via paypal.com

If you have to update someting for paypal, visit the site directly.
Looks like scam for me, too.

If paypal hahahahahas to someone, they will hahahahaha your name and not
'Dear valued PayPal member'

Just got an automated reply:

Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 11:41:05 -0500
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Reply-to: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: Kayla Cam <[email protected]>
Subject: AutoResponse-Email Returned - SARA (KMM50798964V48008L0KM) All headers

Dear Kayla Cam,

Thank you for contacting PayPal Customer Service.

In an effort to assist you as quickly and efficiently as possible, please
direct all customer service inquires through our website. Click on the
hyperlink below to go to the PayPal website. After entering your email
address and password, you can submit your inquiry via our Customer Service
Contact form. If you indicate the type of question you have with as much
detail as you can, we will be able to provide you with the best customer
service possible.

If your email program is unable to open hyperlinks, please copy and paste
this URL into the address bar of your browser.

https://www.paypal.com/wf/f=default

If you are contacting PayPal because you are unable to log in to your
account, please use the contact form below.

https://www.paypal.com/ewf/f=default

Thank you for choosing PayPal!

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: When you click on links in this email, you will be asked to log into
your PayPal Account. As always, make sure that you are logging into a
secure PayPal page by looking for "https://www.paypal.com/" at the
beginning of the URL.

Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address will not be
answered.

This email is sent to you by the contracting entity to your User Agreement,
either PayPal Inc or PayPal (Europe) Limited. PayPal(Europe) Limited is
authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the UK as
an electronic money institution.

********************************************

Got that, too. It's a phishing scam. Mouseover the link and it's not paypal. Got pratically the same email last week from Citibank.

:1orglaugh paypal sucks

I've received an email from paypal that told me if I didn't update info in the next 30 days my acc was on hold ... But it was a real one for sure because my CC was expiring back then

Hmm PayPal system itself is a scam and soon i think they ass will be kicked

I get that e-mail about 50 times a week to e-mail addresses that aren't even registered with Paypal. It's a scam.

**That is a scam**. Do nothing, I don't even answer those email's, if you do then they know you have an paypal accounts. I closed my paypal account months ago and I still get those email's.

Its a scam i got the same exact e-mail and i dont have a Pay Pal account.


:winkwink:

That's an old PayPal scam

Welcome to 2001

I emptied my paypal weeks ago. I keep it that way so they can hold absolutely $0.00 for me when they lock my account.

gotta be a scam, only time paypal will ask you to update is when you log in, they never send an email for that

It's a phish email. Paypal would not email that.

Yeah, that link that says "paypal.com" might actually go to an IP address. If you put your mouse over it, it should show the true address it goes to in the status bar at the bottom.

Otherwise, it may be paypa1 instead of paypal... in some fonts, the 1 and l look the same.

me too

I picked up the phone and called them about this one a few weeks ago and they said if it didn't directly address you by name, then it is NOT from Paypal...... and to watch this kind of thing because they CAN use those forms to get any and all of your information, such as credit card info and such. What they told me to do was login to my account and send that exact email with headers in tact to them and they can then maybe do something about it.

They told me that had I filled that out, then I should change my Paypal password asap and if I put my cc info in there, I should also have those cards changed, because chances are they have them. SOME ask for the CC info and some don't on these emails.

yeah i got this too this morning - its a fake

only ever log into paypal yourself, from https://:2 cents: