#paypal fraud

[ask-de-writer]

Hi, it's the old De Writer here with a warning!

If you get something like this in your email or messages, report it at once to

<[email protected]>

If it's an email, forward it to PayPal and delete it.

If it's a message, take a screenshot of it and send that to PayPal. Then delete the false message.

Do not call any number or click any link. If you did, change your passwords at once.

This thing is totally fraudulent but it will pass most security checks. They are being sent by the abuse of genuine PayPal accounts.

Be safe, my friends

[artistsbeware]

!! SCAM ALERT !!

Here comes our first entry into Scampedia~

Scammers are impersonating artists to get you to send payment to them instead. Here's how the scam works, how to avoid being scammed, and how you can fight back.

Howdy! Welcome to our first post in the Scampedia. This is a relatively simple scam that involves the scammer using a legitimate artist's ic

[your-naked-magic-oh-dear-lord]

Someone with the URL unlikelyprincebird is going around scamming artists. They tried to scam me out of $150. Don't let this person "commission" you. I'm only out a couple hours of work. Don't be out hundreds of dollars.

[weatheredpoetry]

This Is A Warning About PayPal - They Are Not A Secure Company I've Been Attacked Twice By Fraudulent Businesses Also Canvas Is A Fraudulent Busines

This Is A Warning About PayPal – They Are Not A Secure Company I’ve Been Attacked Twice By Fraudulent Businesses Also Canvas Is A Fraudulent Busines

Hello my lovelies, so I have been using PayPal for year’s to collect payment for my business. I’ve had two accounts because the first account was used without my permission by a theft and I had to delete it in 2019. Now I have a new account that I started a year after I deleted the first account. I was attacked by a fraudulent business in July on the 12th the day I got my teeth pulled. At 12 PM I…

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[financedude]

A New PayPal Scam to Watch Out For

Today I learned about 2 new PayPal scams floating around that you need to watch out for. The first one I read about on The Morning Call, it looks to be one of your ordinary Phishing style scams. The second scam consists of an elaborate story about a fake software. A site called Wealth Artisan wrote about it in great detail. The application is called the PayPal Money Adder. So, let’s dive in with my analysis of these two lame attempts at stealing your money.

PayPal Phishing: Do You Recognize This Charge?

The scam is pretty simple, you receive an email asking you to confirm a transaction. You see that it is a transaction that you didn’t initiate, so you click the “Cancel” button. You’re then redirected to a login page, which looks like PayPal’s, but it is not.

Once you login, the fraudsters have your login information and can clean your account out. It’s pretty ridiculous the amount of effort these people put into taking your money from you. To read more about this scam and the first hand account of someone who almost got taken by it, read the full story here: http://www.mcall.com/news/watchdog/blog/mc-nws-paypal-email-phishing-scam-watchdog-20170629-story.html

But that’s not all I have. I want to share with you another scam I stumbled upon.

Another PayPal Scam: The PayPal Money Adder

This PayPal scam is a bit interesting to me. Instead of trying to trick you, it attempts to target your want for money. The story goes like this:

There is a magical software that literally adds money to your PayPal account. You just tell it what your PayPal address is, you select the amount of money and click a button. And, as if by magic, the money appears in your PayPal account.

...except it doesn’t.

In many places, the PayPal Money Adder scam is used to make fun of desperate people, but it appears a few opportunistic people have made websites and applications that appear to be the PayPal Money Adder.

The ones I’ve seen so far seem to make you complete a survey, which the owner of the site undoubtedly gets paid for, then you get nothing in return. I’m sure some of the other applications are intended to get you to give up your PayPal login credentials.

Remember, everyone:

That’s all I have to say on this subject.

[macwantspeace]

Oh, CRAP, I said loudly. I missed the text coming in. Only checked the phone as I moved away from the computers for siesta. [note the remnant from a prior query is at the top] Reply Yes or No if you used card to send Rodriquez $93. No. Blocked, call. Turned the computer back on and checked paypal. Nothing in Activity list. I thrashed around and found still nothing. I thumbed the number in the text and got connected. After a couple questions they ask me is this fraud - Yes or No? I say I didn't did it. Please answer Yes or No. Yes. OK. Your card is canceled. This is where the loud Crap comes in. We will send you a new card in 7 to 10 days. Oh...here comes Crap again. Or...go in person to any branch. Loop to above response. Couple hours on the bus round trip. Only a couple miles, but you can't get there from here. But I did the went via Lyft. Had to key in my alternate charge card first. Typed in address from bank website. That address does not exist. IH-10 West vs West IH-10. No I don't mean Houston, it's San Antonio. *Add Location While I was trying typings the price went up. But I got there and was the only customer for the teller. Presented ID, "old" card, chat. Go sit, we'll call you. Some people come, stand in line, sit, they all go. Alone. Customer service booth vacant. One teller. A person comes out. Are you the party to whom I am speaking? Yes. Good. Please wait. I'll be back. Sigh. Alone. Finally, they come out with a card and a clipboard. I examine the card. New design. Has a tag: call to activate. So I ask, machine? Yes. Sign here. I de-Lyft back home. Price went from 8.51 to 13.30. Had to go to a different there before here. Fight with the machine to activate. Type in card number and #. Put phone to ear. Type expiration. Um. Just the digits? Or Slash? Or #? The machine says, Dafuq, man. Just type. I manage to light the card. Then, I continue slightly manically, I got to change info on all the folks I pay with that card. Frenzied typing on multiple websites. And changed the pass to paypal. And the card. And wonder how some scoundrel managed to sneak in to send a pay to Rodriguez.

[haldenlith]

Invoice Fraud

General PSA for those who don’t know about this particular form of fraud.

It’s when someone (who is probably using a shell PayPal account with a throwaway email) invoices you for, oh, $500+. They do this by basically picking your email out of a hat and sending the invoice. I’m pretty sure you can even code a bot to do it.

In the past, you still had to click “pay” for it to go through. Well, now it can auto-process, and PayPal will start to try to take funds out. This is easily remedied by just hitting the “cancel” button on the invoice.

But that only works if you are paying attention to your email and your PayPal.

If you’re fairly lax on paying attention to PP (like if you have everything automated, or if you rarely use it), it’ll process and you’ll find that your bank account is suddenly hundreds of dollars short, and probably overdrawn, and you’ll have to go through the painful mambo of filing a report to PayPal and trying to get your bank to reverse the transaction.

So PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR PAYPAL. Or anything that messes with your money, for that matter.

[pinnacle-cart]

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