PayPal scams and other ways to steal your money

As a reminder this holiday season, it is important that you be ever so alert for scams as they've gotten quite good at it. Example this extremely official looking email from PayPal asking to me approve $899.99 dollars to some company. In this case Universal Coaching Consultants, LLC. It even includes PayPal's official phone number to call for questions. The biggest tell that this is a fraud email is it DOES NOT contain my (any) legit email address. Instead, it its addressed "To" "orderstatus35@xolqa.onmicrosoft" dotcom. Any official document should have your legitimate email address in the "To" box. It should also include your actual account name, never some random email address or name.



Also, when contacting your banking / credit card services for confirmation, always get the number official contact info, not what's on the scammer's messages or phone call. BTW, I did contact PayPal, and no such request exists. I also sent them the copy of this.

This is the second one I got today, the other being for the same amount and same official looking email but asking party is "Robert Ross Band".

Anyway, just FYI, and a simple reminder to keep vigilant. These people are pros and any slip of the keyboard finger or brain and oops.... you just got scammed.

Peace

I've had loads of these over the past 24 hours.

I just got a notice from Amazon saying my Prime TV channels were about to be discontinued. Totally bogus as I phoned Amazon...

Watch out!

I've received many PayPal scams the last couple of months always stating that I'm about to have charged to my account some $900.00 or if I did not charge this amount to my PayPal account to call a number that is given in the email. Checked my account the first time and no such payment was due which I knew anyway since I had not charged anything to my account for months.

They do try to make their contacts with you look authentic, but as Dru2 points out, look carefully and you'll find something amiss that will tell you it's a fake.

NEVER click on a link in the email, or call the number. Go to the PayPal website directly by typing it in the address bar.

Scammers are absolutely idiots. . I hate to be this way, but with all the reporting in the news over the past years or so, anyone stupid enough to fall for something like this, deserves to be scammed.

We received such ones in the past. The key is to check the incoming email address. Usually, the scammers come with some random domain. Not the one paypal.com.

We have this request, if you do not reply we will OK it. To cancel call 888-210-5591...

Well known scam, very prevalent right now

A Guy