So I did and it loots like an exact copy of my PP account when I "logged in",.. Then it said to put in all my details like social security number etc.
Common phishing scam. No need to close the account, just change the password.
You're lucky they made it suspicious (asking for SSN) after getting your info.. had they stopped with the login info, said "Thank you for confirming, your account is now unlocked. For security you are being logged out." and redirected you to the normal paypal logout screen, you may have never realized.
Lucky also you knew not to put in SSN--good for you!
Password was unique to PP so no problems there.
I also run a Chromebook with a pass word encriptor for all my finance stuff so I think I am pretty secure
Both of these are smart. Kudos.
Yeah I realised I had screwed up as soon as I "logged on". So in this case the "thankyou for confirming" would not have worked, but your right it was a close run thing.
As I didn't need the PP account anyway and it had a pipe to the contents of my bank account and CC I immediately closed the account, cleared the history on the Chromebook, signed out and shutdown.
If it did have a virus, well it would have had to have been awfully quick to load it before I got out of there plus I understand that its kind of hard to get a virus on a Chromebook (most viruses are probably built for windows/macbook platforms I assume).
I have checked my bank and CC balances and there are no fraudulent payments so far at least.
