to read my post about my email message from what I first thought was from paypal. The post is too long to rewrite here.

Copy and paste is your friend.  :<O 

Just kidding, Connie!

I decided to copy & paste it:

Connie said

"This morning I received an email message in my non PBS email account. It looked like a very authentic paypal message. It stated that there was a problem with my credit card and that they needed more information to clear it up. There was a link to paypal, but I didn't open it up. I then went to my paypal account and saw no problems at all that I could see. I called paypal's main number. Of course it was a phishing email message. There was one significant clue that it was a scam. The message started out with "Dear PayPal User", not "Dear **** (my name).. They also asked me if I had opened any links in the message. I told them that I hadn't. They said that was a wise decision as that is definitely not a good thing to do.They then asked me to forward them the email message. They also told me to trash the message and then empty the trash. I can't remember exactly how I did that, but my son told me what to do and it worked.

I hope this message will help anyone who may receive the same message as I did to not conform to these scammers."

Thank you to both of you for letting people know.  There are so many scammers out there.  I'm sorry that PBS/PayPal is involved even allegedly.  It happens.  Good to know.

Ruth