Scam Email regarding payment to Skype Inc

[Pam06]

Paypal users please beware of a scam Email regarding payments to Skype Inc.  I have just received an Email supposedly from Paypal regarding payment for 3 months subscriptin to Skype Inc.  The Email states that if you have not authorised this payment then please click on "cancel payment" button.

Please ignore this Email as I do not believe this is from Paypal as it does not state my name, ebay membership or Email address as the recipient - it simply welcomes the Paypal Client.

Also when I clicked on cancel payment it redirected me to another site which I immediately closed without entering any personal details.

Thanks Pam

[gericb]

Sorry send to spook@paypal.com not .co.uk

[TracyB1971]

I have today receive an email supposedly from PayPal advising me and about 100 other email addressesof a receipt for my payment to Skype 54.99.  I have forwarded to spoof@paypal.co.ukand await their response.  Having said that I have sent a previous email to the to query it and never for a response.  They payment is not showing up in my recent transactions so hopefully will not go through.  I have emptied my PayPal account just in case.

Tracy

[Marge72]

I too have received an email regarding Skype. I have forwarded it to spoof@paypal.co.uk as advised on this forum. Anymore advice would be welcome.

[winchelsea100]

Forward to   spoof@paypal.co.uk

[braddaaw]

I have had this too -

[Maja]

WARNING!!!

I've had it twice in 2 days.

Sellers be aware.

 I have car for sale worth quite a lot of money.Both were trying to convince me they will buy a car without viewing it at all.

They were really pushy to pay the money asap through PayPal.

Than I recieved e-mail from PayPal (apparently) saying that the payment has been made but is on hold and all i need to do to get the money is to pay the shipping fee.

I have checked my PayPal account and there was no sign of any money being paid at all.

They were also e-mailing me as the "shipping company" to get my adress to come and pick up the car as the" payment has been already made".

[Bettyboo27]

WARNING 

I am selling a car and I had a email saying they was interested and that they worked over seas and that they would send some one to collect the car from there shipping company and all I needed to do was send my PayPal address and they would send a payment I read on here that happened to some one else,l am lucky I looked into this 1st other wise I would of been out of pocket they want you to pay the shipping fee to release the money but there nothing there. 

[Baggababe]

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@braddaaw wrote:

I have had this too -

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I have also received the same twice  email now  supposedly from papal and didn't open it !!

[juliedunkeld]

I too have just received the same email, and in a panic checked all my accounts and changed my password. As no money has been taken most definately a scam email. I'm also thankful I came on here to see that other people had got the same, thanks guys for posting re the problem

[stitchysyl]

I also received this email this morning.   When i clicked the link my pc security stopped me going further, saying it was an unsafe website...

but I still panicked a little and checked my Paypal account...nothing there. 

This is the first time I have visited the forum, but was glad I did as I was relieved to see that I was not the only one.