Scam using PayPal emails and gift cards

[Hbk4567]

Hi, I want to make you aware that scammers use PayPal emails and hotline for a scam. They ask for google gift cards to tackle suspicious transactions on the PayPal account. Have the PayPal hotlines and email servers been hacked?

[kernowlass]

@Hbk4567 

It would not be paypal customer services that you called it would be a FAKE number pretending to be paypal customer services.
The number shows up when you use 'google' to find paypals number OR a scammer has posted a thread in this forum.
Most times these threads get reported and removed but some slip through.
The scammers post genuine advice but the phone number is in the title or post often in a strange format to get around paypals security.
That is why paypal NEVER post their phone number on this forum.
The only way to get the REAL paypal customer services number is via help / contact bottom left of paypal pages and scrolling down past the FAQ to the 'call us' option to phone them.
If you think about it why would paypal ask you to buy google vouchers or itunes cards to answer your question or issue you a refund etc?