PreyPal

🎥 Watch the Video

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📩 The email

## 📝 What's Going On? I got an alert from PayPal's "Wallet Monitoring" claiming someone else entered my credit card info into their PayPal account. PayPal refused to give me any more information unless I downloaded their app. I don't trust their app. I called, but the reps wouldn't tell me any information. They said they don't have access to the info, and again, I'd have to check the app. I pressed for any information about who had my CC# -- does PayPal have an IP address, a country, an email, anything? Eventually, they admitted what you see in the video above: this email doesn't mean that somebody entered my credit card number. I guess it's just a generic, vague alert, meant to scare you into downloading their app. ...why are they so desparate to get us to download their app? ## 🥔 Isn't this kind of small potatoes? Sure. But it's pretty stressful to wake up on a Sunday to a fake email and think you have to cancel your credit card and update your number in a million places. And I hate that big corporations always just get away with lying. My goals are twofold: 1. PayPal should update their email to not mislead customers into thinking their credit card was stolen if it wasn't, and 2. PayPal shouldn't make you download an app ever -- especially not to receive security information