PayPal - Get your return shipping costs covered

Ken Tucky

Jeez you all have me worried now. I got ripped off a few months ago because i taught a spoof e mail was legit but i clicked the link yesterday.

It had my name on it so i guessed it was real. I didnt have to log into my account though. I also didnt have to enter any personal info. Im guessing paypal just add it to your account due to your reply.

I will keep an eye on my account now to see if anything dodgy happens..fingers crossed

anonymousjunkie

I don't believe its real lads, got caught out with this yesterday, clicked and logged in through the link. Forgot about it, then when I saw this thread last night, cancelled my credit card. Don't see any reason why PayPal would be offering to pay for your returns, doesn't make any sense. I didn't see any details on this offer on the paypal site, only through the link provided in that email.

... I think I provided some login info!! did I??... will be kicking myself now if that's not the case as per Ken Tucky's post above... ah well, better safe than sorry

nava

anonymousjunkie wrote: »

I don't believe its real lads, got caught out with this yesterday, clicked and logged in through the link. Forgot about it, then when I saw this thread last night, cancelled my credit card. Don't see any reason why PayPal would be offering to pay for your returns, doesn't make any sense. I didn't see any details on this offer on the paypal site, only through the link provided in that email.

... I think I provided some login info!! did I??... will be kicking myself now if that's not the case as per Ken Tucky's post above... ah well, better safe than sorry

Did you had to logon to paypal when you clicked the link? I didn't, as soon as I clicked on the link I got message I had opted for free returns. I would worried if I had to login to avail to it after clicking on the link. But no logon so no way they could get my credit card details.

anonymousjunkie

Thought I had, but after reading your post I wasn't so sure. Think I may have logged in from the confirmation page that was thrown up to say you'd activated the option though. Screw you PayPal if you've made me cancel my card for no good reason! :rolleyes:

nephster

It *is* mentioned on the Paypal site, see screenshot.
As to why they are doing it - it's to make you use Paypal as your payment option of choice (and hence earn them fees from the sellers) over a straight credit card transaction. They have clearly worked out the amount of people actually using it to make a return will be minimal. Why do sellers offer free returns? As an incentive to use them over alternatives. Works too.

Agree that PayPal have made an almighty balls of reassuring users this is genuine.

MOH

The service is legit, they're advertising it to businesses and encouraging them to promote it to their customers.
It's also the first thing I see when I log into my account.

Whether the individual emails people have received are legit or not is obviously another question. Though it sounds like they probably are, but they're probably registering false positives with various phishing detecting algorithms since that's exactly what they look like.

Still, if in doubt just login to Paypal and activate it from there

MOH

charlie_says wrote: »

I'm slightly dubious about this, I checked the WHOIS (information on the domain and who has registered it) and is says registrar NOT DISCLOSED. This usually indicates someone who doesn't want to be found. Large corporations don't usually do this and include an address, telephone number and other relevant details in this publicly accessible record.

This is unlike the WHOIS for paypal.com http://whois.domaintools.com/paypal.com

Have a look at the one from the email, the DNS servers are the same but that doesn't really prove anything http://whois.domaintools.com/paypal.eu

I'd be very cautious about this and would report it to paypa.coml directly to see their response.

Better be certain with your financial details.

A whois for *any* .eu domain returns "not disclosed", and directs you to the EURid European registry.

A whois there shows it's registered to Paypal, complete with contact information and a detailed history