re: #289 Belafon

Public Service Announcement: Yesterday, I got a phishing email attempting to get my PayPal password. It said my Password had been changed, and looked like one of those emails you get when you change your password at sites. Clicking on the “click here if you didn’t change it” took me to a website that looked exactly like the PayPal login screen, but the address was completely wrong. I went to PayPal and logged in with my current password.

I reported it to PayPal.

Good move. I think it always best to ignore emails. Like you did, if you get a notice, go to the site and use your login as you always do. Links in emails are a no-will-do for me.

edit to add: A lot of times your spam protection should find it as spam. It should have looked at the links to see they didn’t go to PayPal and then end up in spam folder.