Spoof PayPal Receipt e-mails recceived today

[BealeyBabe]

I have received what looks like an e-mail from PayPal claiming to be a receipt for an item that I have not bought, a Lebara Mobile Top-Up Voucher for £19.99. The transaction does not appear on my Paypal history, but there is a line at the bottom of the e-mail which says if you want a refund for this purchases to click here, it then takes me to anther page which asks for my address and credit card details before I can get a refund. Again, this looks like a genuine PayPal page. it was only when I couldn't enter my credit card details correctly as I use AmEx and it wouldn't accept my details  that I suddenly became suspicious. On checking, the e-mail address does not look like a Paypal address at all.

Has anyone else had this kind of thing and is it a phishing e-mail, hoping to gather credit card details fraudulently? Srry if I sound naive but I have never experienced this before!

Thanks 🙂 

[theboatdog]

got one today may 7th 2012

says it is from paypal  and a payment has been sent to cashiers@skypeon

for a subscription  at the bottom of the page it says if you havent authorised this charge open a dispute

and the give you a link to paypal login page which is bogus 

[jimmychoo]

I have had same message for 46.49. So glad I found this thread as nearly put my details in.

[CookieMc]

I've just received one from skype.com with the same link

It looked like it was from paypal but sounded a bit dodgy so I checked the address it came from,  it was 'paypaj'.

[PayPal_david]

Hey guys,

Welcome to the Community!

It sounds to me that you have all received a phishing email trying to obtain your personal information. You should check to see if the email was addressed to your first and last name. Any time PayPal would send you an email, we would address it to your first and last name as it appears on your PayPal account.

We would never ask you to click on a link in an email in order to cancel a payment. If you think that the email you received may not have been sent to you by PayPal, could you please forward the email to us at spoof@paypal.com and then delete the email from your email inbox.

I hope this helps.

David.

[wowitsme69]

Hi bealeybabe, Yeah I had 2 of them for Skype membership. I logged on to dispute page,. It was while it took ages to load that i noticed 360YXT.com in the address bar that I quickly logged off.

I have changed passwords now.

Hope you ok !

[Urhixidur]

That little scam is still alive. I received one today.

[PayPal_Siobhán]

Hi Urhixidur,

Please forward any suspicious emails to spoof@paypal.com, we'll be happy to take a further look. Thanks for sharing. 

Thanks,

Siobhan