GUYS: About that Election Day hacking... PLEASE BE ON ALERT.

[calimary]

GUYS: About that Election Day hacking... PLEASE BE ON ALERT.

I'm posting this here, too.

calimary here. I do not know if this IS part of the results of that hacking, BUT:

I got an email this morning that alerted me that my PayPal account has been limited. It started asking for all the usual information of the kind you do NOT want to have hackers and other nogoodniks to have.

I became alarmed and called the PayPal people on our landline, according to the phone # on my monthly statement.

They looked into things and confirmed, yup, that email is from nogoodniks.

The reason I became alarmed and suspected a link to DU was because, immediately before Election Day, we were all advised that only star members could interact all day.

Of course, all day on Election Day, we were hobbled and silenced by hackers.

The day before, I decided to make sure my star membership was maintained, and made a small payment ... via PayPal.

PLEASE BE ON THE ALERT. I don't know if this has anything to do with the hacking, but it sure is suspicious, time-wise.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I have gotten those before. Don't ever follow the link in the email.

I always forward them to [e-mail]. Sometimes I get an email back from PayPal, but more often I don't. If you have any concern about your PayPal account, either call them direct, like you did, or open a new window and log in to your PayPal account from there.

I have gotten similar emails pretending to be from ebay. The same procedure applies.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. I paid by PP also and no such email. FYI