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Old 23rd October 2019, 13:56   #1
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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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Old 23rd October 2019, 14:47   #2
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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.
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Old 23rd October 2019, 19:11   #3
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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?
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Old 24th October 2019, 19:35   #4
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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.
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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Old 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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Old 24th October 2019, 19:48   #6
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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
Still smells of rodent to me Dave
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