New scan? I got an email from PayPal about a $488 invoice. I didn't order anything through PayPal

[3Hotdogs]

or through any other credit card service.

Anyone else come across this?

[sabbat hunter]

1. scam

Big time scam.

[BOSSHOG]

2. My wife got a message from Greek Squad Yesterday

All official looking saying we were being billed for a renewal, an expensive renewal. Never did business with them. Criminals gotta kill time somehow.

[surfered]

3. Scan. We've received something similar. Check the email address of the sender.

[Ponietz]

4. Phishing scam don't click

[brush]

5. Not that one, but I got a similar one just today, a call, from Amazon. I just hung up.

They want you to start talking, giving up information.

[jls4561]

6. Old scam. The government used to have an anti phishing working group where you could report such

emails. I think it still technically exists, but I doubt that anyone will do anything about it now. Individual companies, like Best Buy have sites to report phishing emails. I forward the suspicious emails before sending them to junk. That way they art at least aware of the problem.

[Nictuku]

7. Definitely a Scam

I watch this channel called "Scammer Payback" and they go after these thieves. The example is a fake 'Norton' scam, but they use paypal over charges, and many many many more fake issues. They get the victim to think they are going to get the money (that was never actually charged) 'refunded' and then get the victim to believe they screwed up and were over-refunded, and that is the scam, when the victim re-pays the 'over refund'. They get access to your computer (and thus your bank account) and drain you funds.

They make Billions on US victims, mostly elderly people. I try to spread the info on how to recognize a scam like this to help protect people.

The Youtube channel is 'Scammer Payback', and here is a video that gives the outline of this scam:

[ProfessorGAC]

17. I Got The Fake Norton Alert

I knew it was fake because I have never had a Norton subscription.
I deleted & ignored it.

[bamagal62]

8. I get both the PayPal and Geek Squa.

Scam email
Often. You can always check the sender email and see it’s a scam.

[enid602]

9. PayPal

I got the same exact one a couple years ago. I called PayPal, and they were aware of it. I went into my PayPal account, and deleted my credit card information.

[SheltieLover]

10. Paypal is a nightmare, in my experience

Bank fraud dept caught 2 attempts to scam my account after using paypal. The bank fraud investigators said this is common for scammers to grsb info from paypal. Never again.

[rurallib]

11. I think PayPal was the first scam I ever got over 20 years ago

Scam then, scam now. Do not open, just blow away

[woodsprite]

12. My MIL got caught with a PayPal scam. They tried to say she made a purchase and owed someone $1.4k.

We told her it was a scam to delete the email and she didn't. Instead she clicked on the link because she thought we didn't know what we were talking about (we're both in IT). We got a call the next morning with her practically crying saying that she was watching them empty her accounts. When she called us she had already given them her SSN and other info. They didn't actually empty her account. I guess they hadn't gotten to that point yet (she was on the phone with them when she called us), but whatever page they had her go to showed all her accounts and money just pouring out of them.

It took almost a year to get everything changed, and her bank would not reset her password or set up her online access again until she proved that her equipment had been swept clean - her phone, her iPad, her Kindle, and her desktop PC.

[ret5hd]

13. Scam Scam Wonderful Scam...

[woodsprite]

14. I think scams are even more prolific now. Hubby kept getting texts from Microsoft (2 factor auth)

all day yesterday where someone was trying to hack his MS account. If 2 factor is a choice, I would say it should be turned on. Some places are going directly to sending you an authentication code to the phone number you have registered.

[snowybirdie]

15. Got something similar

Called the number listed. Got some gibberish from someone, hung up and then deleted it. Haven't heard back.

[eppur_se_muova]

16. Yes, several times. Forward the email to [e-mail], [e-mail] or etc. and the IP in the address of the sender.

(abuse@whatever your email server is.)

Never forget -- you can always login to your PayPal account and view all recent transactions on that account. If they don't show it, it didn't happen.

Any similar charges to your charge card, debit card, checking account -- check directly with the bank that issued that card/account. Most will have their 1-800 number on the back of the card. I've seen bogus charges on my checking account w/my S&L at least twice, and they took care of it quickly and smoothly.

None of the charges claimed in an email to have been made on my PayPal account has ever showed up, anywhere. They are mostly bluff threats to get you to send your ID info or login to a phishing-enabled Web page.