Is this a scam

14 years ago

That sounds like a phishing email. These false "you've received a payment" emails are nothing new. Forward it to "spoof@paypal.com".

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MacMiller

14 years ago

Just don't click on any of the links in the email

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thelawcourt 14 years ago

I wouldn't discount the possibility of it being someone trying to access your details! I am unable to post the thread but if you google and find the thread in paypal community.com, named "Anyone-receiving-1-cent-donations" it may help

I did not enjoy reading that paypal said there was "no problem" in a support ticket, since there clearly is something strange occurring, given the chargeback costs highlighted in that above thread.
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hometutor 14 years ago

Originally Posted by MacMiller

Just don't click on any of the links in the email

A little trick I teach my computer and business clients here in Honolulu Hawaii is to place your mouse over the link without clicking it. Then look in the lower left hand corner for the actual website.

For secure sites I tell all my computer tutoring clients to type the address into the address bar NOT the search engine textbox the address bar.

Rick
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Peter May

14 years ago

Are you sure the notification was from PayPal or a clone, this type of email can get your attention to immediately click the "PayPal" link to check where it came from.

No matter what message I get from Paypal I always type it into my browser.

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Cali16 14 years ago

One thing I forgot to mention; whenever you receive a payment into your PayPal account, the notification you receive from PayPal will be addressed to you. In other words, the email will start off with "XXX (name of sender) sent you $XX.XX (whatever the amount is) and just below that will be "Dear John Doe" (or whatever your first and last name is). Phishing emails often don't have your name in them.

But, regardless, as someone else mentioned, don't ever click on any links in the email. All you really need to do to confirm it is go directly to PayPal and login to your account. Any legit payments will show up there. The emails do say it might take a few minutes for the payment to post.
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dragoneye 14 years ago

Every time I receive an email with Paypal in the title, I'll check my Paypal account by logging in directly instead of clicking the links in the email. There are just too many scams and spams around.
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  You can mouseover a link to see the actual target URL. If it doesn't say www.paypal.com, I just delete it.
  
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contentwriting360

Banned 14 years ago

Hello jdooley13,

We received the same email last month. The sender's email address didn't show @paypal.com so we just marked that email address as a spam and we deleted the email.

Never reply to those emails. If you really are curious, contact PayPal directly and report that or verify the authenticity of that message that you received. They can tell if you really received a cent or not.

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lovboa

Banned 14 years ago

I'm getting a lot of emails from PayPal these days...except they are not really pay pal.
Make sure you check the specific email address they are sending from and not just the Name.

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beeswarn

14 years ago

Yes, it's a scam. Call your bank and put a fraud watch on your account.

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Robin Blinds

14 years ago

theres also a few cases where scammers were buying products for 1c by manipulating the price with the paypal code. That was a couple of years ago so im guessing thats been fixed

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statsman

14 years ago

Yes i've seen these.
Theirs a lot of people that fall for this. Your lucky to have people to tell you before you became a real victim.
also great info at 419eater about other type of scams.

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raylee1

14 years ago

Originally Posted by statsman

Yes i've seen these.
Theirs a lot of people that fall for this. Your lucky to have people to tell you before you became a real victim.
also great info at 419eater about other type of scams.

i found this the other day as ive had a few of these over the years, i wish they really wanted to give me £10 million.
i had nothing much to do the other night and had a great laugh reading some of the email conversations from people winding them up.

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VanessaB 14 years ago

Ditto what everyone else already said.. AND...

A while back someone published some 'tactic' involving sending your subscribers $1.00 in PayPal to 'get their attention', (since a lot of merchant account and affiliate management solutions will auto add any 'buyer's' PayPal email address to your 'list' and many people never check that email.)

Someone in India I believe had the $.01 deposit made to him, and because of the way PayPal has to auto initiate the wire transfer into Indian banks, and Indian banks 'charges' for processing a payment, it wound up costing the guy money.

Just another 'not thought through' amateur tactic.
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Zaheera

14 years ago

people had made many phishing emails like that. Don't believe over it.

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rising_sun

Banned 14 years ago

If it have any link please don't click on it ,may be it is a phishing .you can contact with papal.Check your name in the mail and other criteria that is essential for paypal mail,or help you to recognize it is comes from paypal.

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jdooley13

14 years ago

It appears that the email was sent by paypal. The payment finally showed in my account. The person was apparently trying to buy a product I sell that I charge $21.00 for. I have confirmed that it is correctly set up in paypal to be charged $21.00. I have no idea how it was processed as one penny but I am, obviously, not going to deliver the product for a penny.
I have contacted paypal but so far I have only received the canned response that I get everytime I send a question. Hopefully, I will hear back from them soon with a real response.

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Raydal

14 years ago

Originally Posted by jdooley13

It appears that the email was sent by paypal. The payment finally showed in my account. The person was apparently trying to buy a product I sell that I charge $21.00 for. I have confirmed that it is correctly set up in paypal to be charged $21.00. I have no idea how it was processed as one penny but I am, obviously, not going to deliver the product for a penny.
I have contacted paypal but so far I have only received the canned response that I get everytime I send a question. Hopefully, I will hear back from them soon with a real response.

Yes, they are trying to buy your product at a price of their choice,
which is to get it free. This was an old trick and I think that
Paypal has 'fixed' this so they should not get the download
link even though you receive the payment. You should
confirm whether they got access to your product or not.

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StillHill

14 years ago

Agreed, don't click any links even if they look legit. Open a new browser tab/window and type in paypal.com and login that way... hate these emails!

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nasuryono

14 years ago

They might want to look at your PayPal email address and use brute force to hack it. I would suggest ignoring that kind of email.

And do not click on ANY link there.

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ghostrecon

14 years ago

It is a scam. Typically done by altering the HTTP headers when submitting a payment.

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HN

Banned 14 years ago

How much did you pay to paypal in processing fees? If Paypal charges 35cents + 2% per transaction then you can go almost broke when someone sends you 1 cent payment a few million times. (it will cost you 35 million cents to receive 1 million cents)

They might be validating your email for whatever reason. If the payment goes thru then it's a valid paypal email. I have no clue what they will do with such information.

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Richard Van

14 years ago

Originally Posted by jdooley13

I recieved notification from paypal that someone made a payment to me of 1 cent. The payment came from someone in malaysia. As I don't sell any products for a penny, I was wondering if anyone had heard of a scam involving insignificant payments to a paypal account and iff this was something I needed to be worried about.

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I've had these a few times recently and some are very good.

Either way your first port of call should be a quick call to Paypal and even more importantly don't click on anything in the email.

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piermichel

14 years ago

Beware of these thypes of emails, make sure you do not click on any links of attachement if you do not know the source. I would delete that email ASAP

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piermichel

14 years ago

I'm not sure what email provider that you are using , you could always block the sender so that you know you will not receive junk mails. I get a lot of these types emails. I usually just disregard them all.

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vivi62

14 years ago

just ignore it and tell paypal,so many scams going around today its unbelievable.
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jdooley13

14 years ago

I heard back from paypal. The state that they understand that the product was supposed to be $21 but that my website had the price listed at .01 so that is what they charged the customer. I am not sure why paypal would have looked at my site to determine what the charge was instead of what I have it set at on paypal but regardless, they are incorrect. No product has ever been listed at .01 on my site, it wasn't listed that way yesterday when I checked my site and it isn't listed that way today.
Of course, I have no idea what they expect me to do (refund, ignore etc) or if they are going to try to take any fees from me (paypal only shows them taking the penny as their fee).