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This morning I recived an email from Paypal it was an invoice for a subscription for skype I do not have skype neaver used it dont want to it said that if I did not ask for this subscription to use a link and I would be refunded my money back :-


You sent a payment of 39.00 GBP to Skype (sales@skype.com)
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Merchant
Skype
sales@skype.com
Instructions to merchant
You haven't entered any instructions.
Shipping address - Unconfirmed
United Kingdom
Postage details
The seller hasn.t provided any postage details yet.
Description Unit price Qty Amount
3 month subscription
39.00 GBP 1 39.00 GBP
Subtotal 39.00 GBP
Total 39.00 GBP
Payment 39.00 GBP
Payment sent to sales@skype.com
Issues with this transaction?
If you haven't authorized this charge, open a dispute at:

https://www.paypal.co.uk/helpcenter/open_dispute and get a full refund.
Sealed Pot Number 018 🎄2009..£950.50 🎄2010..£256 🎄 2011..£526 🎄2012..£548.80 🎄2013...£758.88🎄2014...£510 🎄2015...£604.78 🎄2016...£704.50 🎄2017...£475 🎄2018...£1979.12 🎄2019...£408.88🎄2020...£1200.63...🎄2021…£588 🎄2022 £672… 🎄2023 £3,783.90 🎄2024…£3,882.57🎄2025…£4083.🎄2026

Comments

  • Yep, I've had this too and I almost fell for it because 3 weeks before I had actually installed Skype for the first time to talk to my family in the other end of the country. I thought I'd done something stupid and signed up a paid version before realising that I didn't used the email address linked with my Paypal account to register with Skype. Sure enough, I logged into Paypal from their website and no money had been taken from Skype. It looks good though and I'm sure other people will fall for it.
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