Thread: PayPal

Maybe they've just started tracking overseas transactions like some of the banks do? I've had my bank call me after I've bought stuff online and they cancelled my CC while I was in Germany because I'd been buying train tickets while on holidays

Its a scam.
I bet they asked for some ID such as emailing a copy of your licence.I hope you didn't do it.
I forwarded it to the real paypal address and they confirmed it was a scam.
Regards Philip A

Yep, rule #1, never follow a link within an email purporting to be from a financial institution - always go directly to their homepage URL manually. If there was a link in the email, then it was a scam.

Originally Posted by hoadie72

Maybe they've just started tracking overseas transactions like some of the banks do? I've had my bank call me after I've bought stuff online and they cancelled my CC while I was in Germany because I'd been buying train tickets while on holidays

I understand banks will soon require you to lodge your overseas travel itinerary if you want to avoid having your CC cancelled due to suspected dodgy transactions.

Originally Posted by p38arover

I understand banks will soon require you to lodge your overseas travel itinerary if you want to avoid having your CC cancelled due to suspected dodgy transactions.

Good idea too. After hearing horror stories about people having the CC's cancelled while travelling, I make a point of calling my CC providers before travelling O/s to let them know where I'm going and for how long. Never had a "so what?" or disinterested response yet. They seem to appreciate being told this info. I guess it saves them a bit of guesswork if/when "the falcon" flags a foreign transaction.

I had better get my daughter to tell her bank - she's off to the USA tomorrow.

When we (or my parents - I got the idea from them) travel OS we go to the bank and get another visa card issued.

We use that for the trip, then destroy it and close it when we get back home.

Banks have been very helpful to us in setting this up.

Yup, had a similar email not so long ago.
Checked the reply-to address and it didn't look right. There is no way I'd send a copy of my license to anyone. Forwarded the email to PayPal's scam report.
Meantime, just to be sure, I deleted links between my card and PayPal so, although a bit painful sometimes, I need to do thing manually.
I also had an interesting phone call from the US telling me I won a holiday in Mexico. Sounded nice, but when I asked about their company details they go a little shy and the company didn't come up in google (while I was talking to them). Last straw was when they rattle off my details (publicly available) but asked me for my driver's licence number and DOB to 'confirm my identity' I told them I wasn;t going to give them my personal details over the phone - they hung up.
Another issue I had with Credit Suisse - regarding my (Swiss) bank account: when I returned THEIR phone call (number given to my in-laws but no name or company) THEY asked me for my security details before they told me who they were but I wasn't going to give them my details unless they told me who they were in the first place. Circular argument ended up in a compromise...