Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
If you received a message that appears to be from "ARTURO ACEITUNO D.M.D. LLC", claiming your PayPal account processed a payout by a small deposit(1 JPY Japanese), DO NOT call the fake PayPal customer service number 888-912-2470 in it. The message is a scam, and the telephone is not associated with PayPal. The number is linked to a call center operated by scammers pretending to be from PayPal.
Even if the message has your full name and appears to have been sent from a legitimate PayPal email address, do not call the telephone number. The clever part of this scam is that the scammer sent an actual transaction of 1 cent from PayPal to make the scam look legit. If you go to your PayPal account, you will see the transaction. But the trick is to convince you into calling the bogus customer service telephone number (800) 385-xxxx.
If you were tricked into calling the fake number and giving the scammers your account credentials or banking information, please change your account passwords or contact your bank for help.
Here is PayPal's legitimate Customer Support information, if you need help:
Customer Service Hours: 6:00 AM PST to 6:00 PM PST Monday through Sunday
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I got the one fromARTURO ACEITUNO D.M.D., LLC sent you ¥3 JPYPending charge of USD 987.90 for account activation. Questions?I logged into PayPal and there is a $0.02 Balance and under that it says 3 JPY