[Finance] Scam alert with Paypal

[Rogero]

In the last 12 hours both me and my wife have had a scam email supposedly from Paypal. It roughly says that £140 has been paid to John Smith. if you dont recognise this transaction fill in this form. Do not. Just forward to spoofpaypal@co.uk.

 

[clippedgull]

In the last 12 hours both me and my wife have had a scam email supposedly from Paypal. It roughly says that £140 has been paid to John Smith. if you dont recognise this transaction fill in this form. Do not. Just forward to spoofpaypal@co.uk.

You've messed the email address up

 

[Justice]

Bit old that one

 

[dazzer6666]

In the last 12 hours both me and my wife have had a scam email supposedly from Paypal. It roughly says that £140 has been paid to John Smith. if you dont recognise this transaction fill in this form. Do not. Just forward to spoofpaypal@co.uk.

Very common......just hover over the email address it was sent from and you’ll see it’s not paypal at all, and the link to the paypal website in the email won’t be Paypal either (again hover your cursor over it and you’ll see)

 

[Rogero]

It is spoof@paypal.com

 

[Eeyore]

I fill out the form with expletives.

 

[durrington gull]

Yeah I've had a couple of these emails in the last week, ive forwarded onto spoof PayPal email

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Brian Parsons]

I fill out the form with expletives.

Snap.

Sent from my SM-G925F using Tapatalk

 

[BensGrandad]

I received one saying £131 had been paid to someone so sent it straight on to paypal.

 

[dazzer6666]

I received one saying £131 had been paid to someone so sent it straight on to paypal.

Cheap left back ?

 

[BensGrandad]

Cheap left back ?

He was out of contract so desperate

 

[dazzer6666]

He was out of contract so desperate

Bargain [emoji106][emoji106]

 

[The Gem]

Paypal will only ever address the beginning with Dear and BOTH your names, never Dear customer, Dear paypal user etc

 

[Frutos]

The one I got started with 'Dear Costumer', which would have been a bit of a giveaway even if it wasn't such an obvious scam attempt.

 

[BensGrandad]

The one sent to me was addressed Dear Customer but I think the give away is the e mail address as it invariably starts service @paypal but then has a long address after the co.uk. You would assume that if we know how Pay Pal address the customers by name the scammers would.

 

[Official Old Man]

I fill out the form with expletives.

By doing this you confirm your email address and will just get tons more emails.

 

[Eeyore]

By doing this you confirm your email address and will just get tons more emails.

That's alright. Good for letting off steam. It's nice getting calls from 'microsoft' too. I have a nice long chat with them till I decide to unexpectedly hurl abuse down the phone.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I have £2.43 sitting in my Paypal account - I bet the scamming b*st*rds are after that.

 

[Albion my Albion]

In the last 12 hours both me and my wife have had a scam email supposedly from Paypal. It roughly says that £140 has been paid to John Smith. if you dont recognise this transaction fill in this form. Do not. Just forward to spoofpaypal@co.uk.

I send back a message saying I owed John Smith much more than the amount given and if he wants it to fill out my form--which is twice as long and intrusive.