And, you would have thought i'd known better, but, I thought the same thing...it knew my email addy. However, I was told, it somehow gets your email addy you are on and adds it to the window, hence, it does not really know yout user name, just your email addy. For example, I have 7 AOL account names I can use. So, had I signed on under the one I use now, instead of what I used then, it would have shown that email addy as my user name. My best friends DH is a computer guru and tried to explain it to me. So, had I logged on under (just examples) Mom@aol.com, it would have shown that as my user name instead of dad@aol.com. Does that make sense? I also just deleted the link so no one would be tempted and get scammed to, but, if you ever get an email like that one, please be smarter than me.........
Re: If you use Paypal, or Ebay, this is a MUST READ!!!!
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Originally posted by QTPatooties
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Paypal.com has a company set to scam from anyone who accidently types in paypal.com. Notice the second period at the end of paypal.com (Paypal.com.)
As I've been saying ALL along, you were scammed by PAYPALSYS.com, NOT by paypal.com. , as paypal.com. is the real paypal's site. Good that you are trying to alert others, but it would be better to advice to check the URL on top in the browser - and it WOULD say that you are in paypalsys.com .
Once again, for everyone: paypal.com. , amitymama.com. , ebay.com. , etc just forward to REAL sites . PAYPALSYS.COM is clearly NOT paypal's URL
Last effort on my part to educate...
P.S. paypalsys.com has been taken offline already... watch out for other scams.
the url did not take me to paypalsys.com. the url in the browser said paypal.com/abunchofotherstuffican'tremember
and it looked just like a paypal page UNTIL I typed paypal.com in and saw the current page with its little colour ads and whatever
how can that be?
looking at the url IN THE BROWSER WINDOW after clicking her link, I would not have been able to tell I wasn't at paypal. I looked to see if there was anything to tip me off, but I found nothing.
NEVER follow links through e-mails to Pay Pal, ebay or anything similar. It is better to go directly to the site and go where you need to go, lest you risk it.
I *do* always sign in to httpS://www.paypal.com b/c that is what they say to do so you are on the secure server. Just going by what they say, whether it's true or not, I dunno. LOL
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Unless there's a new scam going around, that is all there is to it (the paypalsys.com site is down now, btw). This is not a new scam, since Jennifer says she's fighting with paypal about this for weeks.
well, when I clicked on her link (before she removed it) the url after I got to the page said paypal.com/abunchofothergarbage
I didn't think that was possible. Unless there was a space in there that I missed or something like that?? The reason I find it so creepy is that after going there and looking at the url in my browser it was NOT paypalsys.com, just paypal.com. Ack. But it WAS different that the reg Paypal page when I checked that. Not much, though.
Or maybe I just totally missed a letter, but I really thought it only said paypal.com/etc because I was specifically looking for that.
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I take it back - I used your link Renata and it was the exact same thing you gave - the login page instead of the home page. So her link was legit. That's weird.
Originally posted by Candace well, when I clicked on her link (before she removed it) the url after I got to the page said paypal.com/abunchofothergarbage
I didn't think that was possible. Unless there was a space in there that I missed or something like that?? The reason I find it so creepy is that after going there and looking at the url in my browser it was NOT paypalsys.com, just paypal.com. Ack. But it WAS different that the reg Paypal page when I checked that. Not much, though.
Or maybe I just totally missed a letter, but I really thought it only said paypal.com/etc because I was specifically looking for that.
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I take it back - I used your link Renata and it was the exact same thing you gave - the login page instead of the home page. So her link was legit. That's weird.
Since Jennifer copied and pasted the e-mail in plain-text format (NOT in html formatting), the "hidden" URL got lost, and you just got the legitimate Paypal link. Thus the confusion.
Once again, to clear this up for all confused: Jennifer was a victim of PAYPALSYS.COM scam. If you saw the scam URL before she edited the message, you saw the legitimate Paypal link, as the "hidden" URL (where you really were linked to in e-mail) was lost by copying & pasting.
And, once again: PAYPAL.COM. is a REAL Paypal's site. See all my postings above.
THANK YOU! I was soooooo confused! Whew. OK so now I feel better about checking the browser and knowing that fakes will be exposed. Sorry to be so thick, LOL!
I looked to see if there was anything to tip me off, but I found nothing.
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