I received an email from paypal and have no idea if it's legit

CrimsonPuppetee
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I received a notification of a large sum of money through my email and have a reason to believe it being a scam. Before all payments have just come straight through but this one shows nothing on my actual paypal account. The link on email leads on a site starting with https://www.paypal.com/invoice/ (i didnt click the link just checked the address). Idk it just seems suspicious af but the email itself looks legit scam.png

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sharpiemarker
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@CrimsonPuppetee 

 

It is an actual estimate from PayPal but there are bad actors out there that send unsolicited estimates, invoices, money requests with dummy accounts. It basically another way to spam people. You can cancel, archive it or forward the email to phishing@paypal.com with a note that estimate is unsolicited.


Kudos & Solved are greatly appreciated. 🙂
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