PayPal Drop Box Feature
I received a mysterious email from PayPal (verified the headers) informing - "The Drop Box feature is now enabled on your PayPal account. You can access the Drop Box using Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) at the following location:"
The location is blank. It then goes on to provide me instructions on creating a drop box user account which is supposedly required for sending and receiving files to PayPal through drop box. I have no idea why I would want to send / receive files to PayPal!
I tried to reply back. An automated message informed me to go to https://www.paypal.com/wf/f=default
I went there but I was unable to request support as none of the options matched even remotely to what I am looking for.
The email said: "If you have additional Drop Box inquiries, please contact your
Account Manager."
Who is my account manager? How do I contact him?
Any ideas? Anyone else have had the priviledge of having their mysterious drop box enabled?
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September 22nd, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Forward the message to the spoof/phishing email address at paypal spoof@paypal.com and then delete the email message from your inbox.
It could be very likely an attempt to get you to go to a Phishing page, for the purposes of confusing you so you enter your email/password, allowing them to steal your email / password combination so as to gain access to your PayPal account and empty out your bank account.
Be cautious when following the directions on any email. The only address you should ever go to for paypal is http://www.paypal.com and no other.
Joy Rohan
Security Advisor
THE AMERICAN COMPUTER SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INC
http://www.acsa.net
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Thanks for the warning. But the email is actually from PayPal. I have verified the message headers. Also the url’s actually go to PayPal, not to some cloaked PayPal lookalike. There is absolutely no indication in the email that it may be from someone else.
Also the email addressed me with my account name (which is non-obvious) exactly as PayPal does and phisher’s don’t. This is a surefire indication according to PayPal that a email is genuinely from PayPal.
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:08 am
I have also received this mail from PayPal, and it does appear to be genuine PP mail, but I am absolutely flabbergasted as to what it is about, or why. I found this blog while trying to do a google search on it for information…
September 26th, 2006 at 8:17 am
I just finished spending 20 minutes trying to find info on PayPal about my ‘Drop Box’ email. I looked in my private and Merchant account with no luck. I wonder if it is again another case of one PayPal hand not knowing what the other is doing?
September 26th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Ditto here!
I have just recieved it twice on two of my four paypal accounts (I look after a few charities). One of the accounts has only been set up a week and the e-mail address has never been used for anything.
It looks like there should be an server name after “following location:”