new paypal scam?

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cyclopopcicle

cyclopopcicle

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got an email to day apparently from paypal

is it real?

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Its fake dont never click any links and ignore them emails i have received them and send them to paypal to see if their fake i had a reply and yes they are fake.

I wish they would stamp these emails out their so annoying. :(
 
Hover over the link in the email or right click and click properties, it may say www.paypal.com but it could be another address when you click it. If it doesnt say Dear (name) or even if it does, login to paypal by opening your internet browser and typing the address yourself.
 
My wife is an Ebay addict and so uses her PayPal account a hell of a lot. She received a PayPal receipt via email on Saturday that appeared to show her account had been bought to purchase a watch and ship it to a bloke in the US.

She knew damn well she had done no such thing and, to be safe, immediately phoned the bank and cancelled both cards she uses with her PayPal account. She logged into her PayPal account (not using any links in this 'receipt' I hasten to add) and checked her list of recent transactions - nothing there that wasn't genuine. At that point she forwarded the 'receipt' to the PayPal fraud email address and they confirmed a couple of minutes later that it was indeed fake. She has the minor inconvenience of being without a couple of her cards this week while new ones are being issued, but all things considered, we figured that it was worth that for the sake of peace of mind.

I've seen all the usual crap like the ones that arrive supposedly from banks and you can spot those a mile off - crappy graphics, suspicious-looking URLs and lousy grammar in the body of the email, allied to the fact that in this day and age no bank that wanted to hang on to its customers would conduct business in this way. This 'receipt' from PayPal looked 100% kosher - the best fake I've ever seen.
 
Just looked through all the reported PayPal scams on the http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/ site - virtually all of them look like the crappy lash-ups that everybody can spot a mile off - there isn't one on there that looks like what the wife recieved on Saturday.

This particular one was identical to legitimate PayPal receipts I've seen her recieve hundreds of times - but PayPal have confirmed it was fake.
 
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