Thursday, March 17, 2016

Scam Email: Somebody just sent you a Paypal payment.

Here is a scam email I've been getting a lot lately. Annoying.

It's not even addressed to my email but some slight variation of my email.

Of course the intent is to get you to click on that link and give up important account information.

Don't do it! Always open a new fresh browser and manually log into Paypal yourself and see what is there. Never ever do it from an email link.

Subject: Jennifer Miller just sent you $3,182.00 USD with Paypal. Paypal recommends to withdraw it now.‏
From: Jennifer Miller (beer@codes.io)
Sent: Thu 3/17/16 3:10 PM
To:

Jennifer Miller just sent you $3,182.00 USD with Paypal. 
Click here to continue [points to a very non-paypal url when I mouse over it without clicking on it]
Best of luck!
Jennifer Miller




688698882 MARY MOSHER 1305 COUNTRY CLUB PL GALLUP MCKINLEY NM



2 comments:

  1. Here is the one I just got. The "TO" field had a lot of variations of my email address - probably just phishing all the people who have similar emails.

    Subject: Sarah Jones just sent you $3,182.00 USD with Paypal. Paypal recommends to withdraw it now.‏

    From: Sarah Jones (cohen@consensus.io) Your junk email filter is set to exclusive.
    Sent: Fri 3/18/16 1:33 AM
    To:

    Sarah Jones just sent you $3,182.00 USD with Paypal.

    Click here to continue

    Best of luck!
    Sarah Jones





    4587078 KATHY MURPHY 103 GLADSTONE AVE WEST ISLIP NY

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  2. I just received this exact message from 5 different fabricated people, with the same $ amount, and Paypal message. My email was correct everytime, and they had my correct address at the bottom. If Kathy Murphy or anybody who knows her reads this, tell her to delete her blog here. If it's like mine, and she copied her email to this blog, she is no longer anonymous and she's giving away her address.

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