Email from just eat

boo_star

enfield_freddy wrote: »

PAYPALVOIP is not the name of the company , VOIP is a provider of paypal services, did you check if this was for something you bought via ebay etc?

PayPal transactions show as PAYPAL *<Company name>

Either the OP mistranscribed it or it isn't a PayPal transaction.

peachyprice

enfield_freddy wrote: »

PAYPALVOIP is not the name of the company , VOIP is a provider of paypal services, did you check if this was for something you bought via ebay etc?

Of course he did! There are no transactions on his paypal or ebay accounts, that is why I said paypal is in no way involved and how he knows it was a fraudulent transaction. It was from an account he rarely uses, which is why he noticed immediately that there was a transaction he had not made.

I do not know the name of the company, scammers tend not to give that info out. That is the transaction ID the bank gave him.

peachyprice

boo_star wrote: »

PayPal transactions show as PAYPAL *<Company name>

Either the OP mistranscribed it or it isn't a PayPal transaction.

Exactly, as the bank said, anyone who knows how can call a transaction anything they like.

Just like the £10 o2 fraudulent transaction that are/were used regularly to 'test' if a card/account was live. That was nothing to do with o2.

And judging by the amount they took, that it what they were doing.

JReacher1

I've just received an email from just eat warning me about this email. They make it clear in the email they've not been hacked as they don't hold customer card details on their system. I for one believe them and just think it's a clever scam email that unfortunately people are falling for.

Exile_geordie

There's also a story on MSE about it too


http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/protect/2015/11/beware-just-eat-phishing-scam-asking-to-rate-the-takeaway-service?_ga=1.266849544.762809297.1445905639

dawyldthing

Edwood_Woodwood wrote: »

It doesn't matter if it is Justeat, Natwest bank or any other place, if I get an email asking for bank details I just dump it.

Who wouldn't?

Why was this thread even created?

Because when you get an email stating your full name, full address etc you wonder how they'd got it all. It looked really professional. I don't give my details out easily.

I thought I would pre warn people then 2 months later Martin is setting up a memo warning people too. At the end of the day it looked really formal. I regularly get emails for surveys for buying things etc and then get vouchers so it wasn't a new thing, but then to ask the information again rang alarm bells. I thought if I nearly got caught out if I can forwarn one other person then it's hopefully one person that isn't ripped off by them.