On Sep 13, 2008, at 12:31 AM, Carl Nygren wrote: > I was going to log on to PayPal now, but a site popped up asking for > name, address, credit card number, CVV2, date of credit card expiry, > bank account info, and Social Security Number. > > What bothers me is a) Why would PayPal ask for this, and b) I live in > Sweden and I am a Swedish citizen. :) > I do not have a Social Security Number - since I do not live in the > US. > > I did not submit any info at all. > I did however send an email to PayPal asking how exactly they are > expecting me to fill out this form. > I've had to deal with their stupid tech support earlier and made it > very clear that I am not a citizen or resident of the United States, > that I have no such thing as a SSN, and that I am concerned about > this. What if it is a scam? > I submitted the email under the category "Password Problem" which was > the most related category I could find. > > So what I'm trying to ask here is: has anyone else outside the States > run into this? > Is it a scam or is PayPal going nuts?
Scam. > I know this is not related to Macs, but I figured I'd ask the smartest > list first :) > So Listers - what do you think of this? You were smart enough to figure this, but scammers are getting pretty creative. Anytime PayPal emails you they always have your entire name, never "Dear PayPal User". Any email without your entire name is a spoof and should be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] As for a spoof popup window, this could be any number of things. Is it repeatable? Did you go directly to PayPal's secure login screen, the one that starts "https" rather than "http"; or did you use a link provided on another site? I think you've been spoofed for certain, and doubt it's repeatable (links may be in your browser history). Likely you made some type of error along the way and fell into a trap that you've successfully avoided. Gold star! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
