text: we do not have a pay-pal acount but have been receiving warning messages that foreign entities attempting to u foreign entities are attempting to use it. i second imonfire with one correction - it is certainly a scam. it is called "phishing". they send out a million e-mails. 100,000 of those e-mails are pay-pal customers. 10 of them log into the fake site and reveal their account number and pin. the thieves empty those 10 people's accounts.  i sometimes reply with random numbers and a false name ("robin banks"), just to slow the thieves down.