I came from my job today, ate someting and sit down infront of my computer and check my emails. PayPal sent me an email telling me that they need to upgrade their system for something and they need me to log in so I can make those changes on my account.
How can I know that it is a genuine email from PayPal?
Ok, the first thing is that PayPal never send emails to their clients regarding those kind of changes, they tell you about their changes if they have some once you log in to your account.
In some cases yes, they send emails to their clients about credit cards expiration dates and more but they never ask you to log in and check it.
But if you are not sure that the email is genuine you can do the PayPal anti hackers trick. All you got to do is click on the link on the email that you received, it are goin to redirect you to the PayPal page, on your log in space put your normal log in name, and here is the trick, now in the password space just put any word (NOT YOUR PASSWORD), if it goes thru, it is a fake PayPal page, if it says "WRONG PASSWORD" the PayPal page is genuine. That is because the hacker have no way to verify if your password is genuine or not.
IMPORTANT: You can try to put a wrong password twice if you want to verify again, if it say "WRONG PASSWORD" again do not still trying because with that test now you know that it is genuine and if you put a wrong password for a third time PayPal can lock your account and you will have to call them so they can verify that you are the owner, it can be fixed.
If you found a fake page of PayPal, you can contact them and reply the fake email to them so they can investigate and search for the person that is doing the fraud.
If you got any questions or want to add more information, you are welcome.
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