I've had a PayPal account for a great number of years now. I use it to pay for purchases over the Internet and I also use to to allow folks to pay me for products and services. The service works very, very well and I've never encountered any difficulties with it.
There are a lot of people in the world though that want to access your PayPal account if you have one. Their intentions are not good. The folks at PayPal have to work hard to try and keep their data safe and we must do our part also.
The PayPal "scammers" started out by sending emails to millions upon millions of people alerting them to suspicious activity detected on their accounts. Conveniently, there was a link embedded in the email that would take the worried consumer to the PayPal Web site where they would type in their username and password to "confirm" that thier account information was correct. Unfortunately, what was taking place was that the unsuspecting individual was simply providing their account information to an evil person or organization.
Of course, the link provided DID NOT take the reader to the REAL PayPal Web site - just one that looked identical to it. At first, the emails didn't look very "official", they often had misspellings and some serious grammar issues. Lately though, the emails have been looking pretty real. Not much as changed over the years, as far as the emails go - except now, instead of warning the reader that someone unauthorized "may" be trying to attempt to access your PayPal account, the email now warns that someone has just added an additional email account to your PayPal account information.
I mean, who wouldn't be concerned?
The bottom line though is though - PayPal will never send an email to its subscribers with an embedded link back to their Web site. They've stated that numerous times. What the folks at PayPal would like you to do, is to occasionally go to their Web site, log in, and check for any messages from them concerning issues with your account and then to address them.
Keep sharp, stay alert, be smarter than the bad guys!
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