Hey! I just had this issue, too--they claimed a version of my email with no "." between my first and last. Frustrating that they were able to confirm that address given that the request for confirmation came to me. They set up 2FA with a cellphone on the account so I couldn't just go and say I forgot the password and lock it up. They then added a secondary email to the account, presumably to keep me from getting the emails from whatever they were looking to do. At best this is an inconvenience and at worst they'd be collecting cash for typos on my email. Either way, I don't know how they were able to confirm the account without access to my email account. I forwarded copies of the emails I received to both spoof@paypal.com and PayPal's unsolicited email inbox. Fortunately, I didn't have the same experience as some folks replying here and customer service reached out within a day saying they had deactivated the account. I suggest other folks running into this do the same. Hopefully you get the same response I got.
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