There's a common PayPal scam in which you receive an e-mail reporting to be from PayPal saying that your account needs to be updated, asking you to log onto your account, and giving you a link to do so. Clicking the link takes you to a page that's identical to PayPal, but it's fake !!

The first time I got this scam it was very convincing, but I didn't fall for it because I was alerted to it by an Internet site that I had recently visited. Instead of clicking the address, I simply went to the PayPal home page and logged in there, figuring that if I needed to update my account the alert would come then. It didn't ! Clearly it was a scam and I had avoided it.

• Don't ever respond to an e-mail that asks you to log into your account unless that login address exactly matches the address of the web site where you have an account.
• Better yet, enter the Paypal web site address into your browser yourself.

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