Hello! New to the community, but have been using PayPal since the first year they were available as a payment method on eBay. Today, I received an email from clearly-not-PP with a Maylasian suffix (.MY) ... ... ... Receipt for your debit card purchase Transaction ID: 8W9696903T625984L Hello (MY EMAIL ADDRESS), Thanks for using your PayPal Debit MasterCard. Here's a receipt for your records. Please keep in mind that the amount below is what the merchant temporarily holds until the transaction is complete - it may not be the final purchase price. You'll be able to see the final amount in your account history once the transaction is complete. If you did not authorize this purchase: (authentic looking but almost certainly hinky link) If you don't want to receive an email every time you use your debit card, just change your notification preferences. Amount: $9.17 USD Merchant: PL* ITUNES.COM/BILL 866-712-7753 CA Please note that the name of merchant may be different once the transaction is complete. ... ... ... What's curious here is there is no transaction showing in my account activity (nor at my bank), and there's no actual request for info etc. The URL is even close to believable. Is this leading people to a site asking for money or info? Has anyone else seen this? I have changed my password and security questions, it was a good time to do this, but Googling Maylasia Scam didn't bring up quite this model of email. By the way, I don't have an iTunes account and I don't have a MasterCard debit on my PayPal account.
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