Paypal SCAM email received- Courtesy posting FYI

I'm not naive, or foolish. Common sense. Don't open mail that appears suspicious. I'm posting this info as a courtesy.

I got an email referencing my Paypal contract. Problem? Yes, Paypal does not do this type of thing.

The email has an attachment/case#.PDF. I did not open it. The email and attachment was forwarded to spoof(at)paypaldotcom.

The email read as follows: Sorry, there are no hungry fish in my pond!!!

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is from PayPaI and may
contain confidential business information. It is intended
solely for the use of the individual to whom it is
addressed. If you are not the intended recipient please
contact the sender and delete this message and any
attachment from your system. Unauthorized publication, use,
dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this E-
Mail and its attachments is strictly prohibited.
EMAIL DELETED AFTER FORWARDING

Scammers are getting trickier and trickier. Glad to hear you forwarded your fake email to Paypal’s spoof address. Not sure if anything ever comes of it, but I do it too.

One easy clue that an email is not from PayPal is the greeting. PayPal will always address you by your first and last name for personal accounts, or by the business name for commercial accounts.

Here’s a link to PayPal’s ‘How To a Spot Fake Emails’ page with more tips.

I’ve also received spoofed emails that appear to be from Amazon regarding a problem with an order. They look real enough that they probably trick people often.

I get scam emails fairly frequently. Some of them very convincing, for those not familiar.

The attempts would be more convincing if they had the correct grammar, spelling, and professionalism applied.

Key give-aways for most of them are are the email "addresses" that really stand out.

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I am from the same Geek Squad. I build my own.

You jogged my memory. The other day I got an email saying they had to change my Facebook password, that I needed to log in too a specific link to update my profile.

I don't have a Facebook account

My rule, never click on anything in any emails, unless I am 110% sure. I go directly to the website after typing in the link.

You clicked on something and got a parasite. Damn hackers!!

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As a rule of thumb, stay on top of the cookies logged and saved. I don't know what browser you use (I use Mozilla), though manually deleting cookies is my safety net. I've not had any issues in years, since deleting the cookies by hand. And i do this for every new tab, browser window, for every website I go too. Before I go to another link.

My way may sound extreme, or paranoid, but it works better than any "add-on" or program I've used or installed to handle things automatically.

I get a bit anal when it comes to other websites tracking my Google search, then all of a sudden, my homepage advertises a flashlight I was looking at the night before.

Facebook is notorious for tracking your every move so they can advertise what you have interest in. Next thing you don't know, oops, you clicked on that ad without hesitation. Because you liked the ad!!

I get about 10 of these emails each day. The email greeting (none or email address) and sent from address make it obvious the email is phishing.

What should I do with the Nigerian Prince who just wants to stash his entire treasury into my paypal account for a couple of days? :confounded:

Have fun with him, send him a paypal address that does not work and keep changing a letter in it each time he comes back to you complaining. You can string them along for days like this. At some stage then tell him HE has to make a payment into it to be verified. That leads to another week or two of fun. You just keep telling him you haven’t received it.

Additional fun can be had by sending him a photo of yourself (anything you want, but old doddery people with black glasses and a white cane make them froth at the mouth), or telling him you have been declared senile, or that you just won a large amount of money, or that you recently came out of jail for murder. The last one tends to make them back off.

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I get phone calls from a guy with a heavy Indian accent saying his name is David sometimes it’s Neil, Tom, Barry, etc. haha! and he is from Microsoft support and my computer is sending error messages. I know this is some scam because Microsoft doesn’t call people telling them their computer has problems, so I play with them.,I ask which computer, I have four? They fumble and say go to your computer and open a cmd prompt. I ask which computer, they say all of them. I ask what is the name of the computer they fumble some more,and say sir you have serious problem.,I continue with the which one, and what is the IP address of the computer, they do a bad job of avoiding my questions, I ask them questions they can’t answer, etc I end up playing with them for about ten minutes and they get frustrated call me all sorts of things, etc… It’s fun.

Send him your bank info, $15500.00 for the release,taxes and get that $126,000,000.00 man.

Hahaha!

Sounds scary !
Noted with thanks .

Bottom line: Don’t EVER click on a link from an e-mail claiming to be from any entity that uses private information. If you need to verify account info, just go to your browser and use bookmarked links or type in the web address to go directly to what you know to be a trusted site.

I get these all the time.
“Your account has been suspended. You need to update your info to release your account.
Use the link….”. etc etc
Usually I click on the senders address to see a ridiculous mail address, and forward to
Spam@Paypal
or Spam@Apple

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For when your data has been compromised…

Is there a possibility that if l click my Yahoo Mail’s ‘Delete’. it instead acts as if l clicked their link, thereby hacking me?

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