Paypal fraud by buyer on Gumtree website

Supersonos

I'll never understand why people don't do even the most basic checks.

"service@paypal.co.uk <safepay_onlineservices@accountant.com>"

Why would PayPal be sending emails from accountant.com?!

soolin

mikb said:

soolin said:

mikb said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

The grammar in that is laughable...

Just ignore it.

"If you think you've received a phishing email, forward it to spoofpaypal.co.uk (so we can investigate) and then delete the fake email from your mailbox."

This isn’t a phish, it’s just a rather old common scam . Scumbags are not trying to hack anything, just get gullible people to send goods without paying. 

I didn't say it was a phish, or that anyone was being hacked, I was quoting the contact details for PayPal to report such things (Rather than "just ignore it") -- they actually DO like to know when some chancer is forging emails to appear from them as part of scams/frauds, old or new. Just because a crime is old and common, doesn't preclude it being reported.

PayPal will like all other places, thank you for reporting it and send you the usual cut and paste about how to spot a spoof email. From experience this is all done automatically , and even real PayPal emails receive the cut and paste email saying it is fraud. They don’t read them as by the time they are reported the issuing address has long gone. I get dozens of fake emails a day, mainly eBay and Amazon ones, but the occasional PayPal, various banks, HMRC etc.