fubar57
General
Just got an email from "PayPal" saying they had a surprise gift for me. Went to the actual PayPal site and there no mention of free gifts
PayPal Scam?
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Seeing a lot of this kind of stuff lately. I have hundreds of dollars in refunds waiting in accounts that I don't have.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Same here.
That said, two years ago, I got a call from someone on behalf of Pay Pal, telling me I'd won a draw from a recent competition survey, and £1,000 would be deposited into my account within four or five days. Didn't ask for any of my details, but I didn't believe it.
Checked with PP, and they were unaware of any survey with a possible prize, but had received a couple of calls about the same thing.
Low and behold, a few days later, £1,000 was in my PP account, quickly transferred to my Bank account !
That said, two years ago, I got a call from someone on behalf of Pay Pal, telling me I'd won a draw from a recent competition survey, and £1,000 would be deposited into my account within four or five days. Didn't ask for any of my details, but I didn't believe it.
Checked with PP, and they were unaware of any survey with a possible prize, but had received a couple of calls about the same thing.
Low and behold, a few days later, £1,000 was in my PP account, quickly transferred to my Bank account !
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Well, you were surprised......................
Geo, when you receive a suspicious email (can be from your bank, from Revenue Canada or from the Queen
) just hover with the cursor over the link they have added for use. It doesn't matter what the link/address is, the real address will appear in the left bottom corner (usually) . You'll be surprised where you will be redirected!Below is a sample from my email-box (I have no spam so I'm using a "good" email from the trash bin): the cursor hovers over "Austrian Expressionism..." etc. but the real address is below, left:
Cheers!
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at6
1st Sergeant
I just delete such notifications. I might possibly lose out on an actual prize or what ever but I won't be scammed.
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fubar57
General
Just had another from the USPS which as a Canadian, I use all the time. This and the PayPal one were in my Junk Mail
mikewint
Captain
I use PayPal on just about everything I purchase on-line but so far have ween spared that scam but the 20 Robo-calls a day more than make up for it. I suspect hat it is because of my cell phone number which I kept through the years. It has a Chicago area code.
