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

[temp201906207h]

It's still going, I got one yesterday, but is not personalised so I binned it.  You'll have to do better than that scammers.....

[Tiggerblue82]

Please read,

 I have just received this email for the 4th time now:

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You sent a payment of 43.92 GBP to Skype

Merchant Skype payment	Instructions to merchant You haven't entered any instructions.
Shipping address - Unconfirmed United Kingdom	Postage details The seller hasn’t provided any postage details yet.

Description	Unit price	Qty	Amount
Online Number, 3 month subscription	43.92 GBP	1	43.92 GBP

Subtotal	43.92 GBP
Total	43.92 GBP
Payment	43.92 GBP
Payment sent to payment

Issues with this transaction? If you haven't authorized this charge, open a dispute at:
https://www.paypal.co.uk/send_payment/claimrefunds and get a full refund.

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Dont fall for it, it is a SCAM!  I logged onto Paypal but not using the link above and checked my account; surprise surprise no record of the above payment.

I repeat DO NOT fall for this email, report it and click spam to stop it appearing in your inbox.

[marinah]

hi i got the email and in panic pressed cancel payment then it sent me to some form i didnt fill it out and closed it straight away, but because i pressed cancel payment is anything gonna happen to my accounts

[stuffystuff]

I, too, pressed the cancel payment button and then realised I had done something silly and closed it straight away.  Then I phoned PayPal for advice.  They told me to change my password and any other password that was the same for any other accounts and run a full virus scan of my computer.  I did this.  I also tried logging into my PayPal account with my old password just to check it had worked and it did I couldn't log in.  My computer scan showed that there was nothing untoward going on.  So at the very least I would change your PayPal password.

Hope this helps!

[dormi87]

I got a similar email, stating a 3 month Skype phone subscription for £18. I did click "cancel payment" but when I was redirected to another site, I got a warning saying "this is a forged website" with two buttons, one of which had something to do with "forgery" and the other said "get me out of here" - which I did click, and it took me back to my Mozilla homepage. I then ran a full computer scan and update [results came back clear] and having read this thread, changed my password for PayPal.

I have the webpage in my history and have tried googling it but to no avail. Unfortunately I can't remember if the warning was a pop-up or if the webpage had the warning as content... which is a bit suspicious. Anyone else have something similar happen?

[teresajane]

Thank you everyone for putting what has happened to you on here as I received this email this evening.

Unfortunately, I had my purse stolen at the weekend so it was even more likely that someone was trying to use my card.

Thanks guys

[jonmillios]

I have just had the same email, did any money go from your account?

[dormi87]

No money has gone awol from my account, but am keeping a close-eye from now on.

[qweeny123]

i had this and sill me i logged in to check it so they have my deyails i have changed my password what else can i do to stop them accessing my account