Scam email allegedly from Paypal...

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Zero_Gravitas
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edited 10 March 2017 at 1:15PM in Praise, vent & warnings
Just posting FYI as I had not seen this one before...

Received this from "PayPal Payments <vqDH.mjQL@tufts.edu>"

It was just good enough to make me think for a moment and check my actual PayPal transactions - particularly as it claims that you have bought a subscription to something... However, the "from" address is clearly nonsense, it doesn't address me by name (although my PayPal ID - redacted here - was correct). I've also redacted the "unsubscribe" link - but that was nothing to do with PayPal either:

"Dear ,


You sent a payment of £58.00 GBP to Google Chrome – The Fast and Secure Web Browser This email confirms your purchase of the following subscription usign your PayPalID (redacted):
Product description: 1 x Google Chrome – The Fast and Secure Web Browser Unit price: £58.00 GBP
Qty: 1
Total price: £58.00 GBP
This is a subscription order and you'll be billed every month until you cancel your subscription.
Issues with this transaction?
You can cancel a Subscription at any time: [url]http://[/url]I have redacted the link.com
You have 7 days from the date of the transaction to cancel the subscription without beeing charged.
Yours sincerely,
PayPal

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PayPal PPC000478:180189844d1ea"
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  • peter_the_piper
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    Can you please remove the link to redacted.com
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  • Zero_Gravitas
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    peter_the_piper wrote: »
    Can you please remove the link to redacted.com

    Done - sorry. I'd removed the original link and replaced it with "redacted". It never occurred to me that "redacted.com" actually existed... Should be clearer now.
  • DoaM
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    The subject of the subscription itself should have been a big clue that this was a phishing attempt. :D
  • kwikbreaks
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    IMO PayPal encourage phishing - they are one of the few these days that include links to their login pages in emails.
  • forgotmyname
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    I dont think ebay or paypal need to give sellers your email address. Your user ID should be more than enough for a seller.

    I use a separate email for ebay and paypal and never use then for anything else. Unlikely to get get emails from random generators also. Not impossible though just unlikely.
    So when i get spam or phishing attempts i know its someone i have dealt with. I buy a lot from China and the amount of advertising emails i get now is increasing.
    If it carries on i will just bump them to new email addresses.

    The seller gets your ID so why the need for my email? All communication should be done within ebay/paypals systems.
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  • hollydays
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    I'm suddenly getting phishing emails re Paypal every other day it seems.
  • SpammyTheSpammer
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    And included the email header information
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  • SpammyTheSpammer
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    Only 1 smelling misteak-
    "You have 7 days from the date of the transaction to cancel the subscription without beeing charged"
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  • soolin
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    forgotmyname wrote: »
    I dont think ebay or paypal need to give sellers your email address. Your user ID should be more than enough for a seller.

    I use a separate email for ebay and paypal and never use then for anything else. Unlikely to get get emails from random generators also. Not impossible though just unlikely.
    So when i get spam or phishing attempts i know its someone i have dealt with. I buy a lot from China and the amount of advertising emails i get now is increasing.
    If it carries on i will just bump them to new email addresses.

    The seller gets your ID so why the need for my email? All communication should be done within ebay/paypals systems.

    These are random though, it doesn't take a genius to set up a spam programme to send out a million emails a day to made up email addresses, most will fail as the addresses won't exist but some will get through. These are not generated from the actual companies.

    I get phishing emails all the time on supposedly 'clean' email addresses, most from companies I have no connection with or in many cases have never even heard of.

    My most irritating phishing mails currently at the Amazon ones that are arriving several times a day and will not filter into my spam net.
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  • silverwhistle
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    SpammyTheSpammer wrote: »
    Only 1 smelling misteak-

    'Don't tell them, Pike.'
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