Unauthorized Payment Processed from Your PayPal Account.
Your PayPal account was used for an unauthorized transaction of $654.92 to Coinbase, and you must immediately contact PayPal’s Fraud Prevention Team at +1 (888) 928-7792 to prevent further unauthorized activity.
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We’ve identified an unauthorized transaction made from your PayPal account to Coinbase:
Amount: $654.92
Transaction ID: PP-00124004958
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Log into paypal.com by typing the URL and see if any transactions occurred. Don’t click any link in the email, do not call any number. That doesn’t appear to be their default fraud number (877-438-4337) which does not mean that this email is not legit. If your account is fine it’s ok to contact them to see if they want you to forward the email. But if the email itself is fraud, it’s not anything to worry about, it is in itself an attempt to get your info.
I almost got bagged, but I got a little satisfaction.
I got an email with a “statement” from the Geek Squad, which I’ve never used, for $476 for a renewal of something. Please call this number … I did. I felt the creeps right away. I don’t want to put too fine a point on it but the Indian (prove me wrong) gentleman who answered the phone just said, “Support.” When I asked him to repeat it I heard a kid screaming in the background - or maybe a cat, or a chimpanzee, how the fuck do I know. I did give him my name but I was very wary. He had me read off this long-ass Transaction ID (that he misidentified as Order Number) that I could tell he was not recording in any way, shape or fashion. Then he started asking me about my pay-pal account (which I rarely use and surely didn’t have $476 available in it) and how I must have been scammed by a public hacker but golly-gosh-gee, don’t you know it, he can help me get my money back.
I didn’t really pay attention to what he said next as I was too busy reading about this very scam online - I had already checked my bank balance and nothing was missing. I snapped back to attention when he said, “I’ll connect you to our technician who will connect with your laptop.”
“You’re not connecting to my laptop.”
“Then how will I be able to find out who did this?”
“I think we know who did this. This is a scam - I just looked you up. Eat shit asshole.”
Scam, no doubt. Had a couple in several of my e-mail accounts already. Only one account is linked to paypal. One of the e-mails even showed a yellow paypal logo instead of blue. This is the new Nigeria scam: first find out the really naive ones. Then fleece them.
Similar fake transaction notices arrived in my email. PayPal support suggested I forward the notices to phishing@paypal.com - they need to know just how prevalent this is and what fresh tricks the fraudsters are trying.
A lot of times, they make it obvious: I typically see my address as a bcc (blind carbon copy) along with at least one other address. If an issue actually existed, they wouldn’t be sending the same transaction number to multiple addresses.
I got a text almost word for word about two weeks ago. I have never used paypal in my life. A scam. When I get something like that about a credit card, I always call the number on the back of the card(which is always different from the one in the text) and never click on the link.
