PayPal scammers

[John Marsh]

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 (http://www.browserling.com). This revealed that PayPal have deleted the scammers' file(s), on suspicion that they are a scam!

[NutLoose]

John,

First off, DO NOT OPEN ANY LINKS, It can put malicious software on your PC or let them know the account is live so they can target you more..

https://www.howtogeek.com/437513/what-should-you-do-if-you-receive-a-phishing-email/

https://www.identityguard.com/news/what-happens-if-you-open-a-phishing-email

to get them shut down, forward the emails to the link on here. I do it for everyone I get.

https://www.gov.uk/report-suspicious-emails-websites-phishing