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Old 7th Oct 2023, 09:41
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John Marsh
 
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PayPal scammers

I have received a scam email, notifying me of an invoice. The sender was shown as paypal.com. I know that part can be spoofed. Links within the email led to an invoice page at paypal.com.

Giveaway clues: the email came to an account which has no association with PayPal.

The salutation was User. PayPal do not address their customers like that.

I have conducted no business which would generate the purported invoice.

What particularly stood out, was that the links led to genuine PayPal content. I tried one in the online sandbox at Browserling. This revealed that PayPal have deleted the scammers' file(s), on suspicion that they are a scam!
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