More from the typing monkeys at paypal
You may recall Paypal and their typing monkeys being, well, not helpful. Here’s their latest email:
Thank you for reporting this email to PayPal. You received a fraudulent email that was designed to mislead you into divulging your PayPal account password. Emails initiated by PayPal will always address you by your first and last name or the name of the business associated with your PayPal account.
If you clicked on any link contained in the email and then typed in your PayPal account password, your password may be compromised. Please change your PayPal account password and security questions. Also, please review your most recent transactions for any discrepancies.
Err, no it wasn’t. Stupid people.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Are you certain? When I saw your original post my first thought was “phishing.” This may also explain the same automated message being sent to you no matter what you asked or said.
I find it a good policy to never click a link in an unsolicited email. I’ve also checked the headers of messages just like this (including, IIRC, one purportedly from PayPal) and have found all manner of strange and wonderful sender IP’s and actual link targets. Sometimes it’s the Ukraine, other times, who knows?
October 24th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
quite positive as the email agreed to a notification i got when i logged in to my account.
October 24th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Are you sure you logged into your account, i.e., manually pointed your web browser at http://www.paypal.com rather than following the “helpful” link in the email? The whole saga sounds a lot like a phishing expedition to me, too.
October 24th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Xrlq, quite certain. I did log in. It’s not phishing.