I received 2 Payment Requests from different people for 877.77. How do these requests come about?

[Suhail7]

I received 2 Payment Requests from different people for 877.77 at the same time which I can cancelled . How do these requests come about?

[kernowlass]

@Suhail7 

Sounds like a scam money request or invoice.

Scammers harvest email addresses and send out those requests hoping some email addresses are linked to paypal accounts and the unsuspecting recipient 'may' pay them not realising they are scams.

If there is a cancel option then cancel it, if not ignore it and hopefully it should time out at some point.

They often put phone numbers in the ''notes'' section so that as its a genuine paypal invoice you think the phone number is real, its not, that is how they scam you.

As long as you don't click to pay it then no money should be transferred.