totally steaming!! Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 (edited) I just went to make a paypal account, and just after entering my address and name details this message came up "We are currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures. Your account has been randomly selected for this maintenance, and you will now be taken through a series of identity verification pages. Protecting the security of your PayPal account is our primary concern, and we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Credit Card Information" then it asks for card information to verify that i am infact me. how on earth can i verify my card details if they dont even know them yet? Possibly the dumbest cock up of a website ive seen, and im supposed to trust them with my money? im lost, some please find Edited December 21, 2011 by totally steaming!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike_dummie Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 Scam? Happened to my mums bank account, page address ect all looked very genuine and it asked her for her atm pin. Doesn't paypal used your debit card not credit anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robwalker Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 did you go onto www.paypal.co.uk, or did you click a link. With any banking you should always enter the address manually and double check it's correct. A big scam is to set up an almost identical website with a typo in the domain name, and then use a method like the one above, to try and get you to hand over your details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 Clearly you've ended up on a phising website, not on PayPal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totally steaming!! Posted December 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 yea i typed it in and all that. :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 Looks legit to me. It shows that you're logged in at the top, are you sure it wasn't already logged in on someone else's account or something? Saying that, card details usually give you the last 4 digits, rather than XX 34 or whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 Do you have a credit card that ends in 34? It's definitely not a phishing site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totally steaming!! Posted December 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 nope, nobody else uses this comp, when i put my email and password in that screen comes up.... anything i click on just takes me to that screen too. i dont have a car with any of those numbers, i also havnt entered any card details into this site yet so they cant possible know what my details are. what a cock up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Canham Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 Try paypal.co.uk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 nope, nobody else uses this comp, when i put my email and password in that screen comes up.... anything i click on just takes me to that screen too. i dont have a car with any of those numbers, i also havnt entered any card details into this site yet so they cant possible know what my details are. what a cock up. Humm, that's very strange. Fire them an email. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 Try paypal.co.uk? You just get redirected to paypal.com/uk anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 (edited) Try a different browser, or better - a different computer. There's lots of nasty malware out there which could even redirect you onto a dodgy PayPal website copy without you knowing it. edit: also, have you tried entering a credit card number? Just write any number in and make sure it ends with the 2 digits they need. If it goes through, it's dodgy. Edited December 22, 2011 by Greetings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 Would a dodgy site still have the right URL though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 Would a dodgy site still have the right URL though? Nope, but I recently had some sort of crap on my PC (which ended up with a format because I couldn't get rid of it) which redirected me to all sorts of sites without the address bar changning. So for instance, I could have TF in the address bar and be on some website full of ads. It was the same story with searching in Google, would click on a result and be redirected somewhere else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totally steaming!! Posted December 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 well to be honest if all these scams are out fishing for paypal users and such. then f**k it ill just keep clear full stop haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piperfraz Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 That's weird! It's got the "s" beside the "http" which stands for secure, and it looks like the real deal.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted December 24, 2011 Report Share Posted December 24, 2011 That's weird! It's got the "s" beside the "http" which stands for secure, and it looks like the real deal.... You're almost right, it stands for another acronym: SSL. Basically means secure, but in a more longwinded way As Inur said, you can get malware which will change the address bar to whatever it wants - always be wary of stuff like this if you've got an issue like the OP did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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