Chapter 7. PayPal, eBay
If you have used eBay, the Internet auction site, you have probably used PayPal, which started as an independent company to help people pay for goods and services online and was bought by eBay in 2002. A phishing scam starts with an email claiming to be from PayPal telling you that it has had some computer problems and it needs you to log on to your account to confirm your personal information. However, the link takes you to a phony PayPal website. If you go there and provide the information requested, you soon become a victim of identity theft.
Another PayPal scam involves an email that purports to be from PayPal informing you that you have received money from someone. (In many instances, the name used is Betty Hill, which ...
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