In addition to being a longstanding PayPal Member, and realizing that our Synthzone forum includes PayPal donate options, I thought it important to share with you all this:

A week ago I received an email supposedly sent from PayPal, and appearing VERY CONVINCINGLY as official PayPal email stationary, saying that all PayPal members must update their account by Sept 17, 2004 or face account suspension. This email also included website links to update your account. The link itself read: 'click here to update your account', but when I checked the link, it went to this address: http://ns1.frandt.com/suspended.page/

On the SAME page, it said: you can log on to your PayPal account to confirm your email address by clicking the following link which read: http://www.paypal.com/us , BUT, if you ACTUALLY CHECK the link address, it really goes to an entirely DIFFERENT website altogether: http://www.subme.frandt.com/suspended.page/

I then decided I'd better sign on to my PayPal account directly by typing in PayPal's actual official website address manually:

https://www.paypal.com/

After doing this, & providing my user name & password, I find my PayPal account working just fine.

It's obvious that the email I received was an illegal attempt to find out my PayPal account and obtain sensitive information.

Curious if anyone else here has encountered this type of email? In the meantime, I've emailed PayPal directly to report this.

The bottom line is, you must proceed with caution on the internet.

Scott