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- Worcester, MA, USA
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Received an email from "paypal" support claiming that my account had been compromised. They were willing to fix the problem but for a cost. First they wanted gift cards but then requested a wire transfer.

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- Boise, ID, USA
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Using official looking PayPal email. Says to go to WalMart and request store to store transfer for to pay moving expenses for an item purchased on Craigslist. Money will only clear to your PayPal account AFTER you pay the shipping costs & fees. I have 3 VERY official looking emails that appear to be from PayPal. I already forwarded them to [email protected] for investigation. Careful when you sell things online. I said local pick up only but would consider shipping if buyer paid all associated charges. Hah! They really tried to get me on this one...

Please let me know if you would like me to forward these same emails to you...

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- Aubrey, TX, USA
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They will tell you to buy a apple iTunes card and give them the number

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Fake PayPal said I was being scammed and hacked after purchase of jeans a d I needed to get Google play cards.

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Email stating that I ordered something with Paypal with a link to cancel the order if I did not make this purchase.

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- York, PA, USA
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This seller is pretending to buy an item and pay through paypal, but uses the false email of [email protected] to pretend to be PayPal saying that your payment is on escrow until you send the product. If the email does not end in @paypal.com, it is NOT from paypal. This seller found my listing on the LetGo app, and took our conversation to text message. I have included both numbers. The first time they contacted me she said she was Sarah Jose and that she was sending the laptop to her grandson in Lagos, and that she would add the money for shipment to the payment. Obviously, I never received payment. Then after a lengthy argument and fight, she stopped responding.

Her 'husband' then contacted me to try and resolve the matter and get me to sell him another laptop. I played along to get more information. He wanted the laptop sent to Wilton Disla Lugo in Newark, NJ. I have all email trails and both lengthy text message trails, where he tried to convince me to send it without the payment coming through first because he was a "good godly man" and his wife "was sick with stage 2 cancer".

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I have been receiving emails from this fake PayPal saying that I have authorized payments for purchases. I NEVER use my PayPal account anymore, and haven't in years. They are trying to get you to click on the email to complain, which will allow them to get your personal info, and account numbers, etc. I am thoroughly disgusted by all of this, and sick of receiving this stuff!! Please do not fall for these scams.

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This is the second attempt at phishing me. This one has all the proper links, but payPal has no record of this transaction #.

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I looked on line to pay my PayPal account and the first thing that came up said Paypal office with a phone number of 866-885-3888. I called the number and the person on the other end had a heavy accent said that I should pay my account using a google card. I asked to speak to a supervisor, someone that speaks English and was given to a woman, who was not much better. She wanted me to go to the store and purchase it while I was still on my phone. Red Flags went up and I said I could not go to the store at this time. I got off the phone and googled Paypal, got into their website and made the payment.

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I received a letter in the mail from "PayPal" saying I had an account and fraud on the account. They told me to call them at 888-361-0687 to verify my information. I called PayPal from their official phone number, and they told me they only correspond through email, not by snail mail. They said the account number on the letter didn't exist, either. 

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Every other week I receive an email from PayPay advising me I have bought something in the U.S. Always several hundred $. My grand-daughter advised me NOT to open them, just delete. I am NOT a member of PayPal, never have been. Can't figure out how they got my email address. Is there some way to stop these emails?

Apparently I bought Air Jordan 1 retro high ogbg (gs) bredtoe Item 803237 Invoice 102302842 (whatever the heck that is) from flight club NY Ltd 888 937 8020

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I received an email purporting to represent PayPal in a purchase from Jeg's Automotive for a purchase of $428.99USD. thetransaction ID: 0-3DT35000K2088174J . It provided a link to a "Help Center" www.paypal.com/ca/help. it claimed to have sent a payment to the following address: [email protected].

I have deleted the email but did forward it to PayPal for their follow up as well.

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- Phoenix, AZ, USA
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An e-mail was sent claiming to be an online purchase confirmation from paypal for $100 to googleplay. It has a link to cancel the order by clicking a button, but clicking the button grants access to your computer.

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- Baldwinsville, NY, USA
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Received email indicating PayPal order had been processed for item purchased at Wallmart- it was spelled with two L’s. Had a link to say Cancel if it was not a purchase I had made

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I received an email that says I paid $*** to auto renew some subscription to Siber Systems for Roboform.com. I have no idea what this is. I did not do this. I sent the email to Paypal so they can look into it.

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Received an email with information on a payment made to Facebook in the amount of $151. Wording indicated that if transaction was incorrect to click on the accompanying site to log on and dispute the charge. The email had a lot of the usual characteristics that a PayPal transaction email has but some things were off. So be careful and read through this type of email carefully. Go to a site like PayPal directly not through what seems like a bogus email

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- Gaffney, SC, USA
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They say they are from PayPal & they say you have money deposited into your paypal accound. Then they say there was suspicious activity in your account & they need to update your informarion & you meed to log in & update information. It ask for your user name & password, then it takes you to next page saying your credit card is expired put in new credit card information. Well i notice that i typed in wrong password & it took it. And I went back & put any password in & it took it. Next page it askes for you to enter updated credit card. Plus the web adress didnt have paypal in it so i also what was suspicious. But the make the log in look identical to there! Be very careful with this!!! The email address is [email protected] but says its from [email protected]

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So I recently posted an ad on kijiji selling a 2015 Macbook and got a text from the aforementioned number. They said they wished to purchase the item for their husband and asked me if I was willing to sell it at a more discounted price, I agreed. The first red flag was when they said they needed more information since we agreed to do the transaction through PayPal and I initially gave them the email address associated with the account, they also asked for my name - Paypal transactions only require a name, number, OR email address. They wanted me to send it right away so I said I would do that as soon as the funds were legitimately confirmed in my account.

I asked for shipping information to also confirm destination charges on my end. The address was sure enough to Nigeria, yet the number they were using is based out of Los Angeles, California. Big red flag. So, with all this in mind and to get more information, i waited until they sent the email and sure enough it was a fake Paypal address stating the money has been approved but it was being held until they got a tracking number, the page actually looks like a well based replica of the PayPal website, but the address is fake and didn't belong to paypal. Im making this report not long after the email was sent to get as much information as I can to avoid this happening to anybody else. Please be careful with your information and always cross reference sources to make sure everything is legitimate. Thanks.

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- East Islip, NY, USA
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Email stated that an unauthorized person accessed my PayPal account and I should log in to my PayPal account to verify the information.

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- Alliance, OH, USA
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We received an email saying we had signed up for automatic payment to Turtle Entertainment Online Inc. for ESA Premium Membership Subscription. Cost will be $26.95 per month. To change or cancel our agreement it gave a link to Login to Your Paypal Account and click "My Preapproved Payments.

Instead of following their link, I logged into paypal separately and there were no such charges or payments set up. I believe this was a phishing scam to get my paypal login and password is you follow their link.

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