PayPal Scammers

byjdavisx7

4.1K followers

Updated 10 years ago

Lately, I have been receiving a lot of email in all of my website inboxes from "PayPal" saying that my account has been limited with a long claim number. When you click on the link, you got to a site that mimics the PayPal screen and are then asked to update your account details.

If you have received these emails and read them closely in the "From" header, you will see something is misspelled as PayPal owns the correct spelling. For instance, I have one that is from "service@peypal.com." They will not own and use an email when their name is misspelled.

Everyone of these emails starts with "Dear Customer" or "Attention Valued Customer". If your first and last name are not included it IS NOT FROM PAYPAL. Never click on a link from your mailbox to PayPal, always go to their website directly and login.

Here is a list from PayPal showing you the signs that you are receiving a bogus email:

Paypal Will Always:
- Address our customers by their first and last name or business name of
their PayPal account
Paypal Will Never:
- Send an email to: "Undisclosed Recipients" or more than one email
address
- Ask you to download a form or file to resolve an issue
- Ask in an email to verify an account using Personal Information such
as Name, Date of Birth, Driver's License, or Address
- Ask in an email to verify an account using Bank Account Information
such as Bank Name, Routing Number, or Bank Account PIN Number
- Ask in an email to verify an account using Credit Card Information
such as Credit Card Number or Type, Expiration Date, ATM PIN Number, or
CVV2 Security Code
- Ask for your full credit card number without displaying the type of
card and the last two digits
- Ask you for your full bank account number without displaying your bank
name, type of account (Checking/Savings) and the last two digits
- Ask you for your security question answers without displaying each
security question you created
- Ask you to ship an item, pay a shipping fee, send a Western Union
Money Transfer, or provide a tracking number before the payment received
is available in your transaction history

We have all worked too hard on our websites to let someone come in and steal the money that we have worked for. If you receive any suspicious email from PayPal, please forward it to:

spoof@PayPal.com

Every email I have forwarded to them, they have sent a thank you message for giving them the bogus email.

Thanks for reading this,

Joshua Davis