Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
The PayPal Scam Email invoices are being sent by scammers to potential victims. The aim of the fake PayPal invoices is to frighten and trick potential victims into calling the scammers. The scammers will pretend to be from PayPal customer service or support and will ask their potential victims for account credentials, personal and financial information. Once they collected the sensitive information, they will use it fraudulently.
Here are some of the fake PayPal customer service or support telephone number being used by the scammers:
If you come across the telephone numbers, do not call them. If you want to contact PayPal, go directly to their website at www.paypal.com and click the "Contact" link at the bottom of the page.
