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Paypal
I have used paypal for 8-9 years. So I get an email saying I need to change my password. I follow the steps and it wants to text me a code. Well, I retired 3 weeks ago and had to get a new phone number. They won't respond and you can't call anybody. So I think I won't have any PP for a while.
It irritates me that these digital companies don't beleive in talking to people and solving problems. If anybody knows how solve this let me know please. Thanks Greg |
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Be careful it’s a scam going around. PayPal will always address an e mail to you by your first and last name. I got one last week saying there was suspicious activity on my account and it would be locked unless I changed password and some other info they wanted. Wasn’t true! Nothing was locked I used it several times since that fake e mail.
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It may well be a scam - they've never sent me any emails about changing passwords. Did you click on a link in the email, or did you open up PayPal separately?
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I ALWAYS click on the sender to show the actual entire email address the sender has. Usually it's the bizarre gobedy gook that a bogus email would be sent from instead of the real email address.
Based on the description of the email you received, that sounds like a SCAM |
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NEVER, EVER click on a link in an email.
Go straight to your Paypal saved bookmark and see if it has been hacked using your info that you sent to that link. As Avman says the address in the header is probably some russian link.
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I second what everyone is saying. Never ever follow a link sent by PP email. Always go to PP and sign in it se any activity or messages.
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Have you logged into your account since you got the email? I’m unclear if you attempted to change the password yet.
If you can still log into your account with your old password, then the e-mail was probably a scam, or PayPal would have locked your account by now. If you can’t log in than the email was legit as a scammer obviously can’t control your real account. But , as said above, go to PayPal website directly to try logging on, don’t go through the email link. I get emails all the time fishing for info, especially on accounts I don’t even have!
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Well I got it straightened out. It was a real pp email but I could access my account because they wanted to text to my old phone# and I couldn’t update my new #
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The scammer probably had the account changed the second they received the 'password'. (Unless he has double authentification) Still need to go to Paypal and see if he can log in. If so, change your password. If can't log in, notify Paypal and have them check/change it.
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John Wallace - johnta1 Pontiac Power RULES !!! www.wallaceracing.com Winner of Top Class at Pontiac Nationals, 2004 Cordova Winner of Quick 16 At Ames 2004 Pontiac Tripower Nats KRE's MR-1 - 1st 5 second Pontiac block ever! "Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts." "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." – Socrates |
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That’s a big relief huh?
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Disregard my my previous post.
Very happy you got it fixed and was not a scam.
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John Wallace - johnta1 Pontiac Power RULES !!! www.wallaceracing.com Winner of Top Class at Pontiac Nationals, 2004 Cordova Winner of Quick 16 At Ames 2004 Pontiac Tripower Nats KRE's MR-1 - 1st 5 second Pontiac block ever! "Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts." "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." – Socrates |
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Glad it worked out!
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If you have paypal you you probably have an Ebay account. If you get an email from pay pal you will also get a message on your eBay account, if you don't its not legit.
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