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23rd October 2019, 13:56 | #1 |
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PayPal scam
Got email this morning supposedly from Ppal but it ended co,uk which rang alarm bells as PayPal is .com
Message said my bank had informed them that a d d was not set up between my account ending **** so I would not be able to use that account to fund any transactions with them but could add money from PayPal to the account. Rhere was a link attached of how to activate a dd. Thiss is all bs as I already have my bank accounts linked to my pp account. Be on your guard everyone
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23rd October 2019, 14:47 | #2 |
Posted a thing or two
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Get them all the time.
Clues are they never address you by name. Secondly look at the Email address it was sent from. |
23rd October 2019, 19:11 | #3 |
I really should get out more.......
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I had a text apparently from my bank ''Loyds'' and apparently I had asked for a credit card balance transfer.
All I needed to do was a ring a number and cancel the transaction. I suspect I would also have to give my card number over the phone to a total stranger, funnily enough the number was not the normal number I would ring if I had a security problem. I wonder how many people get caught by this one? |
24th October 2019, 19:35 | #4 |
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They did address me by name, and had the last 4 digits of my bank account. The thing that aroused suspicion was the address was from PayPal.co.uk, but the REAL PayPal is .com
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24th October 2019, 19:42 | #5 |
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if you type in paypal.co.uk into your address bar it actually comes up as paypal.com/uk/home and from there you have the opportunity to log in
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24th October 2019, 19:48 | #6 |
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Still smells of rodent to me Dave
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