I received an email from PayPal this morning asking to confirm a purchase of a product. I was surprised since I did not purchased anything for the past few weeks. So I looked into the email carefully and spotted few errors. I compared with the previous PayPal’s email I received to double check. It’s confirmed that it’s a SCAM.
This is not an email from PayPal. Oh, it looks real enough, but it’s not. Its called phishing and it’s a way for spammers to get their hands on your personal, private info. Beware! There are people out there trying to get your personal information to use for their own means.
Let me share with you how easy it’s to spot a PayPal scam:
1) Check the email domain. It should not come from other then paypal.com. It can be xxx.paypal.com but not paypal.xxx.com. (xxx as an example) In my case it was from services-account@paypal.intl.com.
In some cases this email domain can also be faked. You might still receive a scam email from seams to be a correct domain.
2) So next is to check the content of the email. If it ask you to click on any link, analyse the link. PayPal link should come from secure site (https) and with a correct domain as above. Make sure to check the link domain from the link bar at the bottom of your browser when you move your mouse over the link. Why? Because a smart spammer might also use a correct PayPal domain name but instead forwarding it to a different link address once you click on it. In my case it was linked to http://www.corlett.com/uu/
Have you ever experience the same? Share it with us.
This is the email I received.
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That was not my email. It was a dummy email created by the spammer. Anyway thanks for your concern.
I got an fake PayPal e-mail way back before I had a PayPal account. This is just a suggestion, but instead of clicking on a link in any e-mail that claims to be from PayPal, I’d open a new tab and go to PayPal by actually typing in the URL, then contact PayPal if I didn’t find anything similar in my account. They need to know about this kind of stuff, anyway.
I haven’t got such experience before. But thanks for the tips guys.
Thanks for sharing
I had a similar experience. I found out that the links in the email was not actually links, they were just blue coloured and underlined words that resemble links. The only actual link in it went to some other site.