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Originally Posted by 1908Revelations (Post 1434048)

I got an e-mail from PayPal saying I had to verify an e-mail address added to my account. Of course I didn't add an e-mail to my account! I clicked the link ane it was really long instead of saying www.paypal.com . Then I went to the paypal website....I compared the two and noticed the diference. I forwarded the e-mail to paypal and they confirmed it was a fraud.

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On regular websites you can browse different pages. On the 'Phishing' website if I clicked on anything it prompted me to log in...regardless of what I clicked on.

that happened to me too. It seemed fishy so I called PayPal and discovered it was a fake.

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Originally Posted by Missam05 (Post 1434351)

You can also hover over the website (and look at the bar at the bottom of your screen--if you have SBC yahoo) and see the website it will take you to. Usually those phishing scams don't have the bank/website/etc. that you're looking for FIRST. That's another way you KNOW it's not official.

That's what I did to an email I got from "Bank of America" and figured out it was fake.;)

Wow, that sucks. Glad you caught it before it got worse Red6.

I get a ton of bank/ebay/paypal/amazon fake emails, but I always just delete them. I never go to a online shopping website through a link from email, I just type in the url myself.

Thanks for reminding us all that we need to be extra careful out there.

S, I'm so sorry this happened to you! We all have dumb moments from time to time. I'm just glad you caught it before they did too much damage.

If you get fake emails from Ebay or Paypal you can always email them to

Spoof@paypal or spoof@ebay to let them know of these particular sites. They will let you know if they are the the real deal or not with a response.

Sometimes I will click on the link for the BoA just to see what comes up in my browser bar.If it isn't the one I normally use it goes to the trash bin but I usually delete without doing that.