This is the part which has me wondering how the OP was targeted. I have no doubt that PP would immediately flag and suspend an account that was spamming invoices on the scale that would actually trip up someone to pay.
I think some are missing the fact that this is an invoice showing up in paypal, in their app and on their website. I just received one from a company claiming I owe them for a domain renewal which I did not renew and explicitly turned off renewals for. It shows deleted in my godaddy account but this invoice, even though it appears as a phishing scam to me, claims to be a Godaddy invoice using a godaddy logo (but from QTSPLELE) under paypal.
Paypal has no way to reject or delete the invoice, as far as I can see. The only option is to Pay.
So I think the question is, when paypal is showing an invoice you know is incorrect, is there a way to just reject it? The only option being shown is “Pay”.
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Yes, I know this is an old thread. Moving on…
True, but if you sent out a few hundred/thousand (times multiple email addresses), some may very well get paid before paypal catches it. As for the email address, it’s no different than sending spam. They probably bought a list of email address or did whatever spammers do, sent out the invoices then sit back and see how much money shows up.
This is similar to a toner scam (but different none the less). As I mentioned upthread, I get fake invoices in the mail once in a while. The idea behind those is that if they end up at a large enough company, they’ll often get paid. There’s plenty of businesses out there that don’t use PO’s and will pay invoices under X dollars, so long as it at least appears legit. Yes, if you sent an invoice like the OP’s, just about every business would reject it since they don’t create websites. On the other hand, send an invoice for 5 cases of mop heads, 3 cases of hand soap dispenser refills, and a handful of other stuff, A/P may assume it’s correct and send a check. Especially if the scammer use some social engineering to get the name of someone in the maintenance dept and referenced it on the invoice.
Call or email paypal. Otherwise just ignore it. It’s a scam, it’s not like they’re going to sue you or put it in collections.