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Re: PayPal security issue?
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Date:
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Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:35:14 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.market.shopping, Eric Brok wrote:
> > I wanted to pay by PayPal, but when I go the PayPal website, it feels like a
> > reroute to a fake site. But I'm not sure,
> >
> > - http://www.paypal.com is a page-not-found
> > - http://paypal.com does show the homepage but my browser's security alert says
> > the https certificate is meant for *www*.paypal.com instead
> > - if I try to contact Paypal or file a Fake Site problem via that site, I get
> > page-not-find on the contact pages. So I can't get to the emailadres for
> > security issues at PayPal.
> >
> > Has anybody noticed the same problems? What is the emailadres of paypal's
> > security department?
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> Hi eric,
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> Both those URLs (correctly) redirect to their secure site
> https://www.paypal.com/
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> Maybe it was a temporary problem. Are you sure you didn't click the link from a
> fake email?
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> ROSCO
Hey,
I also went to the site "http://www.paypal.com" and the page loads correctly and
I had no problem with the security on the site. Perhaps it WAS a temperary
problem, but I didn't have any problem. Try it again and perhaps it will work.
Erik Bush
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| (...) Hi eric, Both those URLs (correctly) redirect to their secure site https://www.paypal.com/ Maybe it was a temporary problem. Are you sure you didn't click the link from a fake email? ROSCO (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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