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Topic : Paypal scam |
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| loubylou |
I had a very realistic email from Paypal last week saying that I had asked for £90 to be transferred to another account. If I hadn't authorised this Paypal were concerned it may be a scam & I should log in and report it. I clicked on the link and a page came up identical to my original paypal log in. I wasn't totally convinced and the www address which was www.grid-wheels made me even more suspicious. Reporting to Paypal they said it was another fraud attempt - they will never write to you as a customer and always by name. See the email below - the link has now been removed. Dear PayPal Customer, Our records show you requested a funds transfer from your PayPal account to a other account on 20/01/2014 . The following summarizes the transfer: To account ending in: *********2954 Amount: 90.00 GBP No action is necessary unless this activity occurred without your knowledge or permission. In case you did not authorize the transfer , click here and identify yourself to cancel the payment. Sincerely, The PayPal Accounts team Copyright © 1999-2014 PayPal. All rights reserved. |
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| jonno |
These are known as "phishing" emails and are becoming more sophisticated and harder to detect. One thing you can do is use Thunderbird as your email program rather than Outlook. Thunderbird will warn you if a link in an email does not link to where it claims to. An even better practise is to not click on links from emails. So if you get an email from HSBC for example, with a link saying click here to sign in to online banking to read an urgent message, don't click on the link. Type the website address directly into your browser to access the website instead. There are other things you can do but this one step will probably protect you from phishing emails better than any other. |
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| photoman |
Regarding the Paypal scam, I receive those quite often and all I do is go directly into my Paypal account and check my account details, If there is nothing untoward that's fine and I just delete the scam email. It's like a bank email scam. just go directly to your account and check your details and as previously stated never click a link on the email. |
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| bogrunner |
One thing that you can check: if an email claiming to be from paypal has "Dear Paypal Customer" instead of "Dear " whatever your name is, it's almost certainly a scam. Paypal address all emails personally as a security feature. |
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