Report funds destination account in phishing attempt?

fencepost
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Someone is spoofing (pretty badly) email from an acquaintance and requesting that I send money to someone via PayPal. If/when I receive the information on the destination PayPal account is there a way to report it to PayPal? I'm assuming that such accounts aren't generally used for one-off transactions but are probably either hacked (to have a long-term trusted account) or are created as fraudulent accounts.

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PayPal_Tricia
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Hi @fencepost

 

I'm sorry to hear of the situation. 

 

You can report violations of our Acceptable Use Policy here

 

I hope this information helps!


Thanks, 
PayPal_Tricia

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