Watch your paypal friends and neighbors. My wife just received a phishing
email claiming to be paypal but in fact took her to a very PP looking
website under the name pajpal. We forwarded the email to paypal.
Mike
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I received an offer from paypal to get a PayPal security key for $5.
I have security keys similar to these on my bank and stock accounts.
https://www.paypal.com/securitykey
I have been spoofed a large number of times by psuedo-PayPal emails, but never
had an intruder that was noted.
I have
They paypal security key is part of Verisign's open id program. If
any of your other security keys are from Verisign you can use them
with paypal and vice versa rather than getting a dozen of the things.
The Paypal one is cheap at $5
You can learn more about the program from a Security Now
don't understand how this works.How does PayPal know what the
security key is???
And, how did you get these for your bank and stock accounts?
gerald wrote:
I received an offer from paypal to get a PayPal security key for $5.
I have security keys similar to these on my bank and stock
The security key creates password numbers using a clock in the key and
algorithm that makes random looking non random numbers based on the
time. These numbers are unique to your key and your account. Every
30 seconds you have a new one off pass-number that you use in
conjunction with a password
At 12:33 PM -0500 10/4/07, Judy Cosler wrote:
don't understand how this works.How does PayPal know what
the security key is???
Each key has an external unique serial number, which you must supply
the first time you use the key to sign on. After that, they know from
your user id what
I frequently get phishing emails from paypal
mike wrote:
Watch your paypal friends and neighbors. My wife just received a phishing
email claiming to be paypal but in fact took her to a very PP looking
website under the name pajpal. We forwarded the email to paypal.
Mike
