PM 28.7.1x64 / Strange Message from PayPal Germany

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PM 28.7.1x64 / Strange Message from PayPal Germany

Post by JoeyG » 2019-09-29, 20:36

My wife just received this message from PayPal Germany (From: service@paypal.de <service@paypal.de>)
(Translation from deepl.com)

New Login at PayPal

An unknown device has logged in to your PayPal account with the email address ...
Pale Moon Windows 7 September 29, 12:10 PM PDT

If it wasn't you, change your password immediately and check your account for unauthorized activity.

Many greetings
Your PayPal team
At the top of the message is my wife's name and the email address mentioned is hers; we're still using Win7.

The link behind the text where is says "change your password" is
https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/settings/password/edit/?utm_source=unp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PPC001733&utm_unptid=ddec6c68-e2ec-11e9-a38b-5cb90192d160&ppid=PPC001733&cnac=DE&rsta=de_AT&cust=QKLZANYHPXX42&unptid=ddec6c68-e2ec-11e9-a38b-5cb90192d160&calc=bf2621372b3b&unp_tpcid=new-device-email-notification&page=main:email:PPC001733:::&pgrp=main:email&e=cl&mchn=em&s=ci&mail=sys

Needless to say, we haven't clicked it.

In fact, she did log in at that time, and we're trying to find out what prompted PayPal's message.

I, too, received a couple of identical mails during the past week referring to PayPal logins I had made.

We've checked our PayPal accounts and everything appears to be OK.

Any idea what might be triggering this?

Thank you very much.

P.S. Wow, I just got the same mail, but with my name and email address. The timestamp on mine is 12:10 PM PDT, which was just a few minutes ago and the time I logged in to check my account.

Just for the record, I'm using 28.8.0a1, which just updated today.
Pale Moon x64 29.0.1 and 29.1.0a1 (portable 2021-02-18); Basilisk x64 2021.02.06; Win7 SP1 (Lenovo S20, Xeon X5670, 12gb RAM, NEC PA272W on Matrox C420 (4gb) + NEC SpectraView 241 and PA241W on Matrox C420 (2gb). Also, Win 10 Pro 2009 (Intel NUC 8i3BEH, 8gb RAM, Samsung U32R590, Intel Iris Plus 655). Thanks to the devs.

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Re: PM 28.7.1x64 / Strange Message from PayPal Germany

Post by Moonchild » 2019-09-29, 22:47

Paypal will send these warnings if it finds a new browser identifier (new browser/unknown browser/different browser/different O.S./etc. etc. -- if you are on the rolling unstable release this kind of stuff is expected.
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Re: PM 28.7.1x64 / Strange Message from PayPal Germany

Post by JoeyG » 2019-09-29, 22:52

Moonchild wrote:
2019-09-29, 22:47
Paypal will send these warnings if it finds a new browser identifier (new browser/unknown browser/different browser/different O.S./etc. etc. -- if you are on the rolling unstable release this kind of stuff is expected.
OK, thank you. This is certainly relevant to my case, but as I mentioned in the title, my wife is using the release: PM 28.7.1 x64.

Thank you again for your feedback.
Pale Moon x64 29.0.1 and 29.1.0a1 (portable 2021-02-18); Basilisk x64 2021.02.06; Win7 SP1 (Lenovo S20, Xeon X5670, 12gb RAM, NEC PA272W on Matrox C420 (4gb) + NEC SpectraView 241 and PA241W on Matrox C420 (2gb). Also, Win 10 Pro 2009 (Intel NUC 8i3BEH, 8gb RAM, Samsung U32R590, Intel Iris Plus 655). Thanks to the devs.

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