Paypal Warns of Phishing Expeditions by Scammers

Paypal is an on line payment service. Apparently, scammers have managed to get some information on some Paypal customers by scamming a few merchants according to this Washington Post article carried on Yahoo News.They didn't get any financial information but they could use what they got to fool a Paypal client into divulging such information through so-called phishing scams using phony forms rigged to look like Paypal emails.

Paypal repeated its advice to never, ever give out ANY information to such requests. Paypal never sends out such requests. Only update your information by starting directly on Paypal's home page and getting a secure server, not one redirected from an email even if it looks like one from Paypal.

We get several of these phony Paypal phishing scam letters per week. We also get other scams trying to get credit card information so the scammers are not confined to Paypal by any means. [Dana Baggett]