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

[shippers2]

hello all i too have received exactly the same email as pam and have contacted paypal to be told its a 'spoof email but very frightening!!! be very aware  jackieso i am trying to change my password and it keeps saying click on profile when there is none pls can anyone help me many thanks jackie

[petewatson]

i have had this email and ignored it... i have now had the £96 taken from my account. has anyone else exprienced this?

[TOKbt6]

Got one of these this morning , reported it to paypal and changed my password

[WHOZADONUT]

Hi,

Do you mean you have had £96 taken from your account after you

ignored it ???????

[thelonius9a]

Hi, So pleased to see these comments as it is very easy to feel "picked on" when you receive one of these e-mails. Just got one in the last few minutes and realised it must be a scam when the refund link took me to a page that wanted all my bank details, address and pass word hint etc. Of course when I actually accessed my Pay-Pal account there is no record of this transaction at all. What worries me is that G-mail didn't pick this up as being in any way suspicious. The e-mail states that the payment is to Skyps with an S. I accessed their site and the domain is up for sale (another clue?).

Go careful people, its a jungle out there 🙂

Peter. 

[PaulL77]

I have he several of these. I phoned PayPal but they didn't seem to understand the issue and tried to sell me anti virus software

[jodies101]

I recieved this skype scam email today... and almost fell for it - can anyone recommend a way to stop the scammers accessing my info? Thankfully I didnt enter bank details x

[PBob]

Hi

Just recieved the same email for skype payment.  Spoke to my credit card providor who confirms it is a phising email.

DO NOT RESPOND

Speak to your credit card provider, who will advise you forward it to them.

[bow4king]

Hello, just so you keep.being updated I too have justv received the same scam email! Very scary as I am very safety conscious and panic about this sort of thing, should I be worried? I have just ignored it but still freaking out! 😞

[PayPal_paula]

Hi bow4king, 

If you have not clicked on any links or responded to the spoof email that you received then there would be no need to worry or be concerned. 

Thanks for posting 

Paula