Latest PayPal E-Mail Scams

Although they seemed to all but disappear from my e-mail for a while, I am starting to see some new PayPal scams showing up in my e-mail lately.
These low-life crooks are always thinking of new twists to use in their scams to make them appear more realistic. They are still using their old familiar tricks like linking to logos and other authentic graphics on the actual PayPal site and have also added a new trick or two.

In this latest message, you can see how they even provide some authentic-looking information regarding some people in Romania who have supposedly attempted to log in to your PayPal account. I have no idea if what they say about Romania is true since I did not take the time to research it, but it is a clever addition to their bag of tricks.

As always, they want to create a sense of urgency by making you believe someone has been trying to access your PayPal account and although this is certainly enough to get someone’s attention (if they are unfamiliar with these scams), they also add that your account has been disabled and you must access the link they have included if you want to re-activate it.

As always, these links lead to a site created by the crooks to look like the actual PayPal site but is really just a front to capture your PayPal username and password. You can guess what happens next.

Here’s the latest PayPal e-mail scam I received:

paypal scam email message


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