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Originally Posted by K C Muffin  The last two days, I've gotten several of the Emails I normally see when I use Paypal - it tells me the amount and who I paid. But I haven't bought/paid for anything. I looked at the address and it said *****@paypalinc.com. I thought that wasn't the right one, so I went to Paypal's address. They don't use the 'inc' in theirs. They're defiitely scams, but all the information in the email looked real. Almost made me go from there into "their" site and "correct" all my information. I wish people wouldn't f*ck with my mind like that. It just raises my blood pressure for nothing.  |
It's called phishing and they prey upon people dropping their guard and entering their personal data. The way to handle it with paypal is to forward each fake paypal email you get to
spoof@paypal.com and then delete the fradulent email.
I have the fraud reporting address of every company I do financial transactions online with. When I get a phishing attempt, I just forward it to the financial institution's fraud reporting system and let them handle it.
They have a way for you to report the fake websites like paypalinc on the security section of their website.