How to block spamming paypal request from a recipient

adamkchew
Contributor
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Hello PayPal Community,

I have a PayPal stalker that is trying to request millions of dollars from me. These fake PayPal request is becoming an annoying fly in my email inbox and I don't know what I can do to block this. 

I don't owe this person anyone money and he/she keeps on requesting for $7MM, $10MM, $17MM, $20MM from me for the last 7 months. I don't want to make a filter for these PayPal requests for my email inbox and ignore them because I actively use my PayPal account.

What can I do, is there a  block functionality?

Thanks.

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DPCreations
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Frequent Advisor

Use your email spam filter and add the email address to your black list.

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adamkchew
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Contributor

Paypal does not expose the email of the recipient of the requester and it's not possible to filter by email address.

from:service(at)paypal.com <service(at)paypal.com>
to:myself(at)example.com
date:Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 2:15 PM
subject:You've got a money request
mailed-by:paypal.com
signed-by:paypal.com

Hope that helps clarify the issue I'm having

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DPCreations
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Your post stated it was a fake request.  This would imply that it is not from PayPal are you sure it is from PayPal and that it isn't a spoofed addresss?

Doesn't your email filter have the capability to analyze text for spam?  My filter does so I can add certain text strings to the filter.

You could also contact PayPal to report the user if the email really is from PayPal.

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majule
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I have the same problem.  It's not a fake request, it is a real request for a payment or donation that I don't owe.  In my case, its my ex-wife (we have been divorced 10 years now) who has decided I should send her a few thousand dollars every so often.  So I get a request for payment a couple of times a week.  I marked the emails as spam but now all PayPal emails go to my spam folder.

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