posted on January 23, 2006 10:26:44 AM new
Got this email from PP...seems like someone sent payment in Euros and evidently I set prefs to not accept (I don't remember doing this but ok..)...if I accept the euros do they convert to $ or keep a separate Euro account in PP or ??
Anyone else have this happen?
Dear *REAL NAME,
You've still got cash!
On Jan. 17, 2006 you received x.xx EUR from [email protected]. If you do not claim your money by Feb. 16, 2006, this payment will be cancelled and the money will be returned to [email protected]'s account.
To view the details of this transaction, click the link below. Then, click the link in the Details column of this transaction.
Your Payment Receiving Preferences are set to manually accept or deny this type of payment.
If you have questions about this transaction, log in to your PayPal account and click on the History subtab. Click on the Details of the transaction in question for more information, or to accept or deny this payment.
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.
posted on January 23, 2006 03:36:56 PM new
I received an email just like that. There IS a link to click on and they're probably hoping that you would click on that rather than going the long way through paypal. I DID click on the help button in Paypal and nothing was there.
posted on January 23, 2006 05:01:33 PM new
This one was for real. I just went to "history" and found the payment with an "accept" or "deny" button. I accepted and when I did I got an opportunity to convert to dollars or establish a Euro account within my PP account. Weird that this is the first one I have received in at least a thousand European transacitons!
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posted on January 23, 2006 06:29:24 PM new
I got one like it, went into PayPal the long way and I did have money waiting for me. I said I would accept the Euros and they deposited them (in USD equiv. in my account).
[ edited by pixiamom on Jan 23, 2006 06:42 PM ]
posted on January 24, 2006 07:43:40 PM new
I've received one too - had never had one before - also got a spoof recently from Paypal that used my real name in the salutation - very scary!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Caroline
posted on January 25, 2006 01:35:49 AM new
I never worry about all these scary emails from my banks and brokers. Why? Well, all the banks and financial institutions I do business with, will never, ever attempt to contact me via anything so insecure as email (it would violate numerous banking privacy laws). Online banking is usually via software supplied by the banks or brokers, secured using one-time pads or individual security certificates and transmitted over VPNs.
posted on January 25, 2006 05:22:12 AM new
I agree agit - banks and brokers no..but PAYPAL isn't either and marches, unregulated, to its own drummer. One never knows what sort of loose cannon could be sending PayPal emails and what kind of impact it could have on your business. You have to read, and sometimes act, on the dang things and the bad guys know this. I never click on PayPal email links no matter how scary they sound and clear out my account regulary. PayPal's account information has been compromised more than once.
My sister uses her PP account to pay ebay and her debit card to withdraw funds on a regular basis. One time without warning PP denied her access to her account saying several of their accounts had been compromised. They wouldn't tell her how it had been compromised but led her to believe that thousands of accounts were involved. They tied up her money for several days until they could "secure" the account once again. Who knows, maybe they needed the money - who's to stop them from doing that to a few thousand accounts every now and again and how much do they make on the float???
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Caroline