Pay-Pal (was: Don't use "BidPay"!!!!)

[John C. Ellingboe]

jpero at sympatico.ca wrote:
> 
> > That said, I have had problems with Pay-Pal transactions, and so have people
> > who I know (one whose entire account was "stolen" to the tune of thousands
> > of dollars), and, in the end, after some hassle and some time, it was all
> > resolved "satisfactorily".
> 
> Just in:
> 
> Paypal just blasted me warning that "my" paypal account is closed!
> What? Closing a pretend account?  I don't open paypal with them, for
> that reason of this idiocity.  I still have this silly "scary" email
> from paypal for anyone to check.
> 
> What I can tell is that:
> The ebay seller is using paypal and I refused to deal with this so I
> sent seller a payment in cash and accepted it because seller just
> told me got the money and sent the item.  (in this case an PCIII
> Lunchbox).
> 
> Cheers, Wizard

I get them all the time.  That is a scam trying to get your
paypal log on info.  Put your mouse pointer over the URL to go
to and you will notice it is to a numerical address and not to
paypal.com.  Look up the numerical address and it will probably
be some third world country.  I see the same thing but
supposedly from ebay also.