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Just received a fraudulent Paypal money request

by Fabian Tan
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I just got a strange Paypal money request in my account (no phishing) of $180.00 for something I did not buy.

Here is the message:

Here is an invoice, I hope you get it and it works OK.

Six 12 inch aluminum letters (L, A, N, C, H and E) $120.00
Shipping 60.00

Please let me know if there is a problem.

WY


I canceled it immediately. Now, I can't see anything that stops this guy from repeatedly sending me requests for money. I will contact Paypal about this the next time he does it.

Anyone get this before?

Fabian
#fraudulent #money #paypal #received #request
  • Profile picture of the author DotComBum
    Just tell the sender that he got the wrong person, I never receive such an email.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fabian Tan
    Well, some people are acting strange recently.

    Some one mass email-ed all the marketers in the Internet marketing niche for example the other day.

    The economy makes some people do strange things.

    I'll see what Paypal has to say about this.

    Fabian
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  • Profile picture of the author artwebster
    I received exactly the same invoice about five months ago.

    I have no idea who sent it because the invoice came on a noreply@ address, nor did the @xxxxxxxxx.com lead me to a company with a website of that ilk. There was no invoice attached to the email, either.

    I reported the email as a phishing scam and have heard nothing since.
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  • Profile picture of the author dsmpublishing
    ive had the same experience but not for about 6mths again when i reported it to paypal they told me it was a fake and to ignore it.

    i never heard from them again though
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  • Profile picture of the author ericchoo18
    Thank you for sharing this, I receive such email about a month ago and had report to paypal. As long as my paypal account is not being debit wrongly,i still think that paypal is safe.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jassim
    I think no need to worry about this kind of peoples. Just ignore those kind of messages. I believe Paypal system is very much secured, so no one can just loot our hard earned money.
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