Not wanting any trouble with my money, I called Paypal in the hopes of taking preemptive action. Of course had to play their AI's silly games, then was invited to either return to the Main Menu or be disconnected. I asked for "representative" and promptly got the 'hung-up-on' tone.
I googled "Thank You for choosing Paypal for placing your Order BITCOIN" and got numerous results pointing to this being a simple spoof. I'm not sure what the point is, their was no clickable link in the email, maybe they just wanted to screw up my mood....
i get these all the time, something similar each time.
i've noticed legit pay pal emails have you actual name in them, scammers just say member.
also that O (oh) instead of 0 (zero) partly down the message is a pretty decent giveaway.
i wouldnt worry about it, just block it and report as spam and move on with life.
if some one is going to try and get into your pay pal account they arent going to send you an email about it.
i had that happen too, some how some one managed to try to debit my pay pal account for the exact amount i had in my linked bank account but it was denied because, one it needed confirmation from me which they never got and since it was a suspicious transaction the pay pal account got locked till i did the hoops to get it unlocked. This was about 15 years ago now though
Yet another spoof email today, more alleged Bitcoin purchases through PP. How weird, Gmail does a remarkable job of filtering out spam & garbage emails that when some does sneak into my Inbox it's conspicuous.
Probably just a co-incidence, but the spoof showed up around the time a couple [legitimate]automatic Paypal payments occur....
Of course. But I'm intrigued and as always inquisitive as to the "why". Just some random phisher...? Cleaning horse stalls pays cash up front, no paper trail.
I'm sure if someone calls that number they will ask for account info confirmation and/or CC info. Also they get your contact information which will be needed to change account contact info once they are in. We see these type of fake emails in the financial industry all the time. Clients call them thinking its their bank and gladly give their login info.
If it wasn't profitable, they wouldn't do it. PayPal is an easy choice as there are 10's of millions of users. Bitcoin because everyone is talking about it. Two things that they are hoping will trick you into calling them. By having you call them, they have vetted thier "mark" to some degree. The minority of callers will just call to mess around with the phishers. The vast majority of callers will have some buy-in already as they read the email and believe that they have a problem and a number for the solution.
Social engineering.
They send out several millions of these emails in hopes that it will be coincidental enough or believable enough to get you to call. I doubt that it's any more complicated than that. They only need a very small fraction of recipients to call for them to make bank.
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This morning I got a disturbing email stating that my PP account would be billed $265.79 for- Item name:BITCOIN
