Well, it happened to me. I received several e-mails from PayPal, and thinking that is was another scam to get my password, I ignored them. In fact, I put them in the delete folder and would have deleted them if I had not received an e-mail from American Express at about the same time.

The e-mail from American Express wanted to know if I had made a $2,419.49 charged to a large merchant store in Los Angeles. Trusting as ever, I did not call the number on the e-mail and instead looked up the telephone number for American Express on the internet.

Calling American Express, I was put through an alphabet of computer choices, in which the automated computer voice asked me if I wanted to know my credit balance, do I want to make a payment, do I want to raise my credit limit, and finally, having too many choices, I hit the telephone with a hammer a couple of times and got through to security.
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