"PayPal You Submitted an Order Amounting" Phishing Scams
The email message below with the subject: "You submitted an order amounting," which states that the recipients sent a payment and the same email message confirms that their purchases were made, is a phishing scam. The fraudulent email message was created by cyber-criminals to frighten and trick the recipients into clicking the link in it, which will take them to the fake and phishing website. The fake and phishing website, which looks exactly like the legitimate PayPal website, should not be visited and the instructions on it should never be followed. This is because any information submitted on phishing website will be sent to the cyber-criminals, who will use it to hijack their victims' PayPal accounts and use them fraudulently.
Persons who have already fallen victim to the phishing scam should change their PayPal passwords immediately before their accounts are hijacked, and contact PayPal immediately for help.
Sample of a "PayPal You Submitted an Order Amounting" Phishing Scam
From: PayPal Payments JXlBS_UaBXUZ@wustl.edu
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 11:23 PM
Subject: You submitted an order amounting $39.99 CAD to Geometry Dash
Dear ,
You sent a payment of $39.99 CAD to Geometry Dash
This email confirms your purchase of the following subscription usign your PayPalID (faithtay96@hotmail.com):
Product description: 1 x Geometry Dash
Unit price $39.99 CAD
Qty: 1
Total price $39.99 CAD
This is a subscription order and you'll be billed every month until you cancel your subscription.
Issues with this transaction?
You can cancel a Subscription at any time: http://apituneordau8.canadasubscription .com/
You have 7 days from the date of the transaction to cancel the subscription without beeing charged.
Yours sincerely,
PayPal
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It is important that PayPal user remember that they should never sign into their accounts by clicking on a link. They should always go directly to www.paypal.com and sign-in from there instead. This will prevent them from clicking on a link that goes to a phishing website.
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