Strange email

[Nrgee15]

Wife received email supposedly from PayPal saying she authorized a purchase from Wish (Context Logic). The shipping address is in CO and we live in MN. The name is Linda <removed>. My wife doesnt have a PP account. What is rhe best way to contact someone to resolve this or make someone aware of this.

[DPCreations]

If the email was not from PayPal then there is nothing to resolve.  Just ignore as with other spams and scams.

[Meg808]

I don't know if the email is legitimate, or not.  It has the Paypal logo and looks legit. But it asks me to dispute the purchase (which I didn't make) and when I click on the LOGIN icon (that looks like PayPal), it asks for my username & passoword to my PayPal account.  However, the sender email address is <removed>.  Legit or not?

[Meg808]

Ok, I just received a reply to my query to PayPal.  You can forward any questionable emails to spoof@paypal.com to verify if an email you receive is real or not.

[Swiss11]

I received the same email but I DO have a paypal account. There are links on the email that brings me to the paypal page to log in.

I checked my account but there is no charges on my account as of yet. I will keep a close eye on it. The email has a transaction number and an invoice number.  The email says, "money won't leave your account until WISH (ContextLogic Inc.) processes your order." Very strange and concerning.

[Merlin888]

I received the same email today, but I never click links in these emails so I immediately opened a new browser and logged into my PP acct, and no such transaction was there. I forwarded the email to spoof@paypal.com.

This same company did make charges to one of my Visa cards, so the fraud department of Visa is investigating.
Nothing like this has happened to me before, so I can only guess it is becuase of the recent Experian breech. Grrr...

[MIckeyOK]

The first clue I got was this did not come to my regular PP email address.

The second clue this was a phishing attempt was the quick link on the login button.

I did NOT attempt to login from this link. I entered PP normally and didn't see the transaction.

This email is attempting to get your account login information.

I suspect if you look at the email your recieved the PP Transaction ID will match the one on this email, assuming everyone got the same email.  I doubt the spoofer went to the length of incremnting the transaction ID to give it legitimacy. They are looking for the gullible, quick clickers.