Paypal scam

Hollie84

Just checked my junk box and have recieved this

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Kel_1981

Always check the email address 'notice@ppal.com' is on that e-mail, if it does not say 'service@paypal.co.uk' get rid of it

Also check for scammers that use 'sevice@paypal.co.uk' missing out the 'r' at a glance you don't really notice.

andyedge

That appears to be a rather simple phishing email which you should ignore. Forward the email to [EMAIL="spoof&#64;paypal.com"]spoof@paypal.com[/EMAIL] so that paypal can investigate it, then permanently delete it.
Basically any email that does not address you by name is a scam. Never click on links in these emails. Always go to the official website via your browser to log in to your account.
More info on phishing emails can be found on the official paypal website (or ebay or any genuine site such as banking websites etc.) usually under safety or security.

Edit: Also check the sticky at the top of this forum:
WARNING ebay and pay.pal spoof emails

Oliver14

andyedge wrote: »

That appears to be a rather simple phishing email which you should ignore. Forward the email to [EMAIL="spoof&#64;paypal.com"]spoof@paypal.com[/EMAIL] so that paypal can investigate it,

I wouldn't bother there is no way paypal have the time or resources to investigate these emails. Do an experiment and send genuine Paypal emails to the spoof address. You'll find that the reply you get tells you that the genuine ones are fakes!

andyedge

Oliver14 wrote: »

I wouldn't bother there is no way paypal have the time or resources to investigate these emails. Do an experiment and send genuine Paypal emails to the spoof address. You'll find that the reply you get tells you that the genuine ones are fakes!

Sorry, but how do you justify this? How does not reporting a criminal act excuse the offender? I am sure you will agree that trying to aquire information by fraudulant means is a criminal act.

Reporting 'genuine Paypal emails to the spoof address' does not really help anyone, least of all those people employed to investigate these matters.

Please let me know if you have any experience from working for paypal as your post implies.

TagEHeuer

Very common PayPal scam, I'd just delete it and forget about it. Please remember that fraudsters can also spoof an email address making it look like it's from the real company. Paypal will never ask you to download an attachement to fill out, nor will they ever ask for your passwords, etc. Everything should be done via your PayPal account. http*://*PayPal.com ( Remove the "*" )

- Simply type it in your address bar and log in to PayPal. Don't click any links via email. Always check that the website has the PadLock, etc. Again, only log in using PayPal.com - If anything is wrong with your account, it will be listed on your PayPal account.

soolin

andyedge wrote: »

Sorry, but how do you justify this? How does not reporting a criminal act excuse the offender? I am sure you will agree that trying to aquire information by fraudulant means is a criminal act.

Reporting 'genuine Paypal emails to the spoof address' does not really help anyone, least of all those people employed to investigate these matters.

Please let me know if you have any experience from working for paypal as your post implies.

Put it this way, my spam filter catches dozens and dozens of these every week. The scammers are fast, by the time the report hits paypal the scammers are operating out of a new address- this isn't a guy sitting behind a PC. A spam bot can generate new email addresses and send out millions of these daily.

By all means send them all to paypal, but that just means they get millions of emails every day to deal with, and like Oliver says they just confirm everything is a spoof, even genuine emails.

The only way to stay safe is to use common sense, if no one even for one second believed these phish emails then the scammers would have to give up and get a day job.

Hollie84

Thanx everyone,have checked my paypal details and all is fine.did think it was a scam but thought id just warn others,have also added it to the sticky at the top aswell

Oliver14

andyedge wrote: »

Sorry, but how do you justify this? How does not reporting a criminal act excuse the offender? I am sure you will agree that trying to aquire information by fraudulant means is a criminal act.

Reporting 'genuine Paypal emails to the spoof address' does not really help anyone, least of all those people employed to investigate these matters.

Please let me know if you have any experience from working for paypal as your post implies.

Sending me an email is not a criminal offence. The criminal offence is the website set up to scam. Going on your point you should be reporting all your emails to the Police not Paypal as they are the ones with legal power to do something. So do you report all your scam emails to the Police? If so the police must love you.

No don't make a habit of sending real emails to them but I did once by accident which it reported as a fake so I did an experiment to find out if I was wasting my time which I was.

Also as Soolin I probably get a dozen or so of these emails a day. So if you multiply that by the amount of paypal users. There is no physical way Paypal investigate them all. Its physically impossible, Thats just common sense.

andyedge

Fair enough guys, I probably won't even bother reporting these anymore as there seems to be no point. :doh:
The Police are already suing me for email harrassment :rotfl:

zaradodds

I keep getting emails from paypal saying I've set up direct debits to pay off ebay purchases and that I can change this if I want, the email adress is notice-34pmkli7@ppal.com but always goes to my junk mail. Has anyone else had this before?

Thanks