Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
PayPal users who have received email messages like the one below, which claim unusual sign-in activities have been detected on their accounts are asked not to click on the link in the email message. This is because the link or button in the fake email messages go to a phishing website looking similar to PayPal's website, where visitors will be asked to sign into with their PayPal account. But, any attempts to sign into the fake PayPal website will send the visitors' PayPal credentials to the cybercriminals behind the phishing scam, who will hijack the accounts and use them fraudulently.
Subject: Alert! Unusual Sign-in ActivityDate: Mon 17/07/2017 19:10From: PaypalWe recently noticed potentially suspicious activities on your account and need to confirm that you authourize all the recently changes.Please confirm your details now to help protect your Paypal account from unauthourized access. We have restricted your online access, which will remain in effect.In order to safeguard your account, we require that you confirm your banking details. To help speed up this process, please access the following link so we can complete the verification.Click here to ConfirmSincerely,PayPal Team
Subject: Alert! Unusual Sign-in Activity
Date: Mon 17/07/2017 19:10
From: Paypal
We recently noticed potentially suspicious activities on your account and need to confirm that you authourize all the recently changes.
Please confirm your details now to help protect your Paypal account from unauthourized access. We have restricted your online access, which will remain in effect.
In order to safeguard your account, we require that you confirm your banking details. To help speed up this process, please access the following link so we can complete the verification.
Click here to Confirm
Sincerely,
PayPal Team
This is why it is important that PayPal users remember never to click on a link to sign into their accounts. They should always go directly to www.paypal.com and sign-in from there instead. Once they have signed into their accounts will be notified of changes and other important updates if there is any.This will prevent them from becoming victims of phishing scams, where cyber criminals steal their credentials, hijack their accounts, steal their money, and use their accounts fraudulently.
PayPal users who have already been tricked by a phishing scam, are asked to change their passwords and contact PayPal immediately for help.
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"From: "servicer@intl.paypal.com-customers-alerts-ngepelqoes.amawaterways.com" Sent: Friday, August 9, 2019, 04:10:16 PM EDT Subject: Action required: Unusual login activity in your PayPal account. Logo Account Alert Notification! Dear Customer, Your PayPal account has been detected by unusual login activity. On 10/08/2019 Activity Details: Time & Date : Saturday, Aug 10, 2019 - 9:47 PM Location : Surabaya, West Java, Indonesia Platform : Windows 10 Home Useragent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.100 Safari/537.36 OPR/62.0.3331.68 Log in to PayPal Sincerly, PayPal Support" Here is another scam.
What I hate is that I cannot send the email back to those stupid scam b*tards and to tell them I'm gonna f**k them in the a**es and I'm gonna shove their scam emails in their s*tty mouths cause they're wasting my time.My precious 5 seconds I have to sacrifice to delete their emails. The email sent to me was sent by my email. It's like I've sent this email to myself haha these little mouses are so afraid to send scam emails from their email cause someone's going to track them down and f**k them in their a**es! Wouldn't be the first time, hahaha.
Here is another scam: "RE : [ Statements New Update ] [Alert] Account Log-in information Has Been Update [Information Update]-013686563079899 Fri 14/09/2018 13:09 From: Account Notice-464634655175223 PayPal Dear Customer Warning : Unusual activities on your account To help keep your account secure, please click the link below to Secure your Account Login Thanks for helping us to maintain your account's security Sincerely, PayPal"
Here is another scam: "Subject: FWD: Warning: Unusual activities on your account Date: Wed 26/07/2017 05:41 From: mochman Warning : Unusual activities on your account If you are seeing the messages this means that your account has been visited from an unusual place given below IP : 176.97.103.90 Country : Ukrania Ville : Odessa As a security measure, your account has been limited. Email : service@paypal.com Case id : PP-801-707-047 Don't worry, you will be able to get your account back just after finishing this steps. Continue"
