I recently sent a payment to someone for 39 British pounds. Payment went through. The day after I received an obvious phish supposedly from Paypal saying that "you have sent a payment to Skype for 39 British pounds. Click on the link to verify that you want this sent". The link was a fraud. What I find worrisome is not the phish, I always get those but the fact that the amount was the same as I had sent, in the currency I used (I usually pay in US dollars) and my exact Paypal email addy. If they had hacked into my account they wouldn't be phisihing (I don't think), but I changed my password anyway. Was the amount they used a coincidence or is there a way these people can monitor activity? I would email Paypal but I would get the usual automated response telling me how to report a phish.
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