PayPal Account Limitation

[CaroleF]

I've had an email supposedly from PayPal talking about Account Limitation and having to remove it before the end of June. Naturally I didn't click on to the link provided but I logged on to my PayPal account and all was fine. However, there was something on there about having to update in order to take account of the new ruling which comes in before the end of June. It seems to be saying I have to update my browser. Now anyone telling me anything technical is wasting their time. Does anyone know anything about all this? Help!

Carole

[GillD46]

I haven’t received anything, and I use it a lot.

[CaroleF]

I was inclined to think it a scam but when I went to the PayPal website - not through the email - there was information about this new situation. Anyway at the moment I've done nothing. As there was a spelling mistake in the email that makes me suspicious.

Carole

[Manoverboard]

Paypal will doubtless need to communicate to you regarding ' preferences ' re the new Data Laws at some stage but they will probably advise you to Logon to your Account and then tick the various boxes … Banks of any colour are not inclined to provide ' links ' to their customers.

[Quizzical Bob]

I was inclined to think it a scam but when I went to the PayPal website - not through the email - there was information about this new situation. Anyway at the moment I've done nothing. As there was a spelling mistake in the email that makes me suspicious.

Carole

If there is a spelling mistake then it's almost certainly a scam. These mistakes are deliberate because they don't want to be bothered with the more intelligent recipients. You did well to avoid it. It's important never to click on the link that they send you. If you do you will be redirected through their site and they will syphon off your login details. Try right-clicking on the link and you should be able to see it's true identity. Alternatively go to the top of your email screen and somewhere you will find 'view source' and you can examine the text in more detail.

[CaroleF]

Interesting Bob, I right clicked on the link - which was my own email address - and got a page full of lower case letters. I right clicked on the sender's email address and got the same result - scam I'm sure.

Carole

[Meg 50]

..... Try right-clicking on the link and you should be able to see it's true identity. Alternatively go to the top of your email screen and somewhere you will find 'view source' and you can examine the text in more detail.

I have been checking a possible AOL scam message.
when I right click a link - I get a list of suggested actions - including copy link.... but no info.

view source give miles of gobbledygook

Help!

[Quizzical Bob]

..... Try right-clicking on the link and you should be able to see it's true identity. Alternatively go to the top of your email screen and somewhere you will find 'view source' and you can examine the text in more detail.

I have been checking a possible AOL scam message.
when I right click a link - I get a list of suggested actions - including copy link.... but no info.

view source give miles of gobbledygook

Help!

'copy link' will put it into the internal clipboard. If you then open another browser tab and right-click and then paste into the search/address bar you should be able to see the details of the link itself. Or just open Notepad and paste it in there, probably safer.

[Quizzical Bob]

..... Try right-clicking on the link and you should be able to see it's true identity. Alternatively go to the top of your email screen and somewhere you will find 'view source' and you can examine the text in more detail.

I have been checking a possible AOL scam message.
when I right click a link - I get a list of suggested actions - including copy link.... but no info.

view source give miles of gobbledygook

Help!

When you 'view source' you should see a whole lot of HTML code. At some point you should recognise some text that was in the original email, something along the lines of 'click here to access your acount'. Not far after that you should see something like 'target=' which will tell you where you will be sent if you did actually click on that link. This is all just for fun but you might find out where their server is based.

[Meg 50]

thanks - so if the link matches the sender it ought to be pukka ( they both say aol.net)?
aol is generally .com which is what made me suspicious even though googling it seemed to show .net leading back to .com.

Last night I had an email from a friend's hacked Hotmail, and the return source says @jmlcorp.com. the detail in the link which I have no intention of clicking is a very short https. address (goo.gl - which I understand is a way to shorten addresses - like TinyURL)