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[Finance] Scam alert with Paypal



Rogero

Well-known member
Aug 4, 2010
5,711
Shoreham
In the last 12 hours both me and my wife have had a scam email supposedly from Paypal. It roughly says that £140 has been paid to John Smith. if you dont recognise this transaction fill in this form. Do not. Just forward to spoofpaypal@co.uk.
 






dazzer6666

Well-known member
NSC Patreon
Mar 27, 2013
52,003
Burgess Hill
In the last 12 hours both me and my wife have had a scam email supposedly from Paypal. It roughly says that £140 has been paid to John Smith. if you dont recognise this transaction fill in this form. Do not. Just forward to spoofpaypal@co.uk.

Very common......just hover over the email address it was sent from and you’ll see it’s not paypal at all, and the link to the paypal website in the email won’t be Paypal either (again hover your cursor over it and you’ll see)
 






Eeyore

Lord Donkey of Queen's Park
NSC Patreon
Apr 5, 2014
23,376
I fill out the form with expletives.
 




















The Gem

New member
Oct 17, 2008
1,267
Paypal will only ever address the beginning with Dear and BOTH your names, never Dear customer, Dear paypal user etc
 




Frutos

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Helpful Moderator
NSC Patreon
May 3, 2006
35,492
Northumberland
The one I got started with 'Dear Costumer', which would have been a bit of a giveaway even if it wasn't such an obvious scam attempt.
 


BensGrandad

New member
Jul 13, 2003
72,015
Haywards Heath
The one sent to me was addressed Dear Customer but I think the give away is the e mail address as it invariably starts service @paypal but then has a long address after the co.uk. You would assume that if we know how Pay Pal address the customers by name the scammers would.
 




Eeyore

Lord Donkey of Queen's Park
NSC Patreon
Apr 5, 2014
23,376
By doing this you confirm your email address and will just get tons more emails.

That's alright. Good for letting off steam. It's nice getting calls from 'microsoft' too. I have a nice long chat with them till I decide to unexpectedly hurl abuse down the phone.
 






Albion my Albion

Well-known member
NSC Patreon
Feb 6, 2016
17,625
Indiana, USA
In the last 12 hours both me and my wife have had a scam email supposedly from Paypal. It roughly says that £140 has been paid to John Smith. if you dont recognise this transaction fill in this form. Do not. Just forward to spoofpaypal@co.uk.

I send back a message saying I owed John Smith much more than the amount given and if he wants it to fill out my form--which is twice as long and intrusive.
 



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