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