BEWARE-paypal fraud

C_Mababejive

Guys watch out for this scam,,
You get a legit email from service@paypal.com detailing a request for payment.

You login to your paypal account and see details of the request.
It normally details something outrageously expensive like a mac book air for $850.
You obviously panic and think, i didnt buy that ! There are two buttons, one says pay and one says cancel. You obviously very carefully click cancel. 

 Beside the request is a message which is framed to look like a message from the paypal security department waffling on about suspicious activity and stating , if you did not have this transaction,then ring paypal on 0800 XXXXXX. When you ring that number you get a VERY convincing ring tone and customer service preamble from paypal and are put in a queue .

Eventually a person answers and their goal is to fool you into a password reset that they can capture and then hijack your account. The message is not from paypal but it is inserted by the fraudster.

The request for payment from paypal is legit but the payment request itself is an attempt phishing scam
The phone number quoted in the payment request is an 0800 scam phone line which sounds VERY convincing but it isnt paypal. Its the fraudsters

olgadapolga

C_Mababejive said:

Guys watch out for this scam,,
You get a legit email from service@paypal.com detailing a request for payment.

You login to your paypal account and see details of the request.
It normally details something outrageously expensive like a mac book air for $850.
You obviously panic and think, i didnt buy that ! There are two buttons, one says pay and one says cancel. You obviously very carefully click cancel. 

 Beside the request is a message which is framed to look like a message from the paypal security department waffling on about suspicious activity and stating , if you did not have this transaction,then ring paypal on 0800 XXXXXX. When you ring that number you get a VERY convincing ring tone and customer service preamble from paypal and are put in a queue .

Eventually a person answers and their goal is to fool you into a password reset that they can capture and then hijack your account. The message is not from paypal but it is inserted by the fraudster.

The request for payment from paypal is legit but the payment request itself is an attempt phishing scam
The phone number quoted in the payment request is an 0800 scam phone line which sounds VERY convincing but it isnt paypal. Its the fraudsters

There are clues in the email that make it clear that it's a scam though. This is the message I received:



The clues are the incorrect name at the top of the mesage, it says that it's an estimate and that your account may have been illegally accessed. These scream that there's an issue with it.

Also, the note from PayPal says that if you don't know the seller, you can ignore the "estimate" as money is not taken from your account against any estimate.

No need to panic about it, just ignore it. Isn't the standard advice not to click on any links in these emails and if you're really worried then log into your account independently of the email to check?

booneruk

It's quite likely if you receive a fake email from someone like paypal, click a link from within it and then enter your login details you would have sent your username and password to the scammers.

I'm not sure if you logged in by typing https://paypal.com or by clicking a link in the email but "Beside the request is a message which is framed to look like a message from the paypal security" makes it sound as if you were on a scam website.

Ath_Wat

I don't know about paypal, but increasingly, genuine messages of this type purposely do not include links.  They just tell you to go and log on to your account.  That's one way you know it's more likely to be real.