Paypal Virus - Beware !

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Just a quick post, I received an e-mail from Paypal today stating that there was £233.77 paid into my accoount. The e-mail looked genuine ! there were no spelling mistakes and all the usual Paypal details etc. were there.

It was also from "service at paypal dot com" -

It all looked fine. It was however in my Junk File which should have warned me !

Now I think I am quite savvy when it comes to fake e-mails but I did not spot this.

There was a link to "Download Transaction File" which I did press ! - Lucky enough Chrome itself saw that it was a virus and stopped the file being downloaded. Pheeew !!

So if you do get an e-mail from Paypal that may be out of the blue, I would recommend that you do not press the link obviously, just go to your Paypal account as normal and sign in, to see if it is genuine.

I was lucky,

Be careful out there, All the best Richie


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At this stage the odds of a legitimate email from PayPal landing in your spam folder would be about a billion to one.

Scammers are getting so cleaver with their craft.

Thanks for the heads up.

Yep ... the online crooks population is growing. That's a great feature that Chrome provides.

Thanks for letting us know. I've gotten these types of emails from Paypal before.

Thanks for sharing this, Richie. I appreciate when others share these types of things so we know what to watch out for!

Best wishes,
Karin :)

Thanks for the warning. I never reply to junk email unless I'm sure it's an email from a company that I know.

Thanks for the warning.

Thanks for the warning. This is good to know. Take care!

Cher

thank you for warning we will be careful in the future

Thank you

Thank you for the warning.

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