"Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" <rhondaleakirk@earthling.net> wrote in
news:ionb2u$v08$1@news.albasani.net:

> Li'l Abner wrote:
>> "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" <rhondaleakirk@earthling.net> wrote in
>> news:iomfak$hi$1@news.albasani.net:
>>
>>> Li'l Abner wrote:
>>>> There's lots of links on here. Any of them I hover over shows a
>>>> link starting with "https://email0.paypal.com/servlet/cc6....."
>>>> It sure looks like phishing to me. If I just log into PayPal the
>>>> normal way, I don't see anything about "enhanced account statement"
>>>> Is it real or do I forward it to spoof@paypal.com?
>>>
>>> It's not phishing.
>>>
>>> There's a new agreement that you're asked to sign about receiving
>>> electronic communications, i.e., the "Electronic Communications
>>> Delivery Policy."
>>>
>>> I admit that I didn't notice anything particularly new about my
>>> account, but apparently there are some tweaks in there of which they
>>> are inordinately proud.
>>>
>>> The nice thing about PayPal is that real letters are addressed to
>>> your real name (or whatever name you gave them, in exactly the form
>>> you gave it to them), so that's a real clue that the letter is not a
>>> spoof.
>>>
>>> If you still suspect there's a problem, you can look further, but
>>> it's really not necessary until the day comes that someone breaks
>>> into PayPal's database, and then it's not going to matter what you
>>> do.
>>
>> I've always been told that legitimate emails will ask you to log in
>> to your account directly (www.paypal.com) and would never contain
>> links.
>> And those mile long links with random looking letters and numbers
>> aren't very assuring wither.
>
> The links go directly to the real PayPal site.
>
> I have received a number of emails from PayPal, all legitimate, that
> contain links back to the PayPal site, so I don't know who told you
> that.

My service provider sends out notices occassionly with such warnings.
They'll tell you to type email links into your browser rather than click
on them in case they are actually pointing somewhere else. And since my
"hover" was showing up as pointing to that ridicously long URL atarting
with "email0" I became suspicious.

Thanks for putting me at ease though. I did forward it to Paypal and
never heard anything back from them. I never did investigate the
"agreement". I've got a good record with Paypal and they've never
threatened to cut me off. Yet, anyway!

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