An ongoing PayPal email scam exploits the platform's address settings to send fake purchase notifications, tricking users into granting remote access to scammers For the past month ...

and it comes from PayPal's official email address, service@paypal.com. PayPal introduced its gift address feature, designed to give users more flexibility in shipping to multiple addresses.

“It comes from a legitimate PayPal email address, so the email address, format, spelling, etc., will all be legitimate,” Bednowitz says. Another thing that makes it convincing is that the ...

Here is what happened to John in his own words: "I mistakenly responded to a false PayPal email notifying ... Always double-check the sender’s email address and verify communications by visiting ...

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Q: Someone made an unauthorized purchase of $1,365 using my PayPal email address. I have filed claims three times, and the first two times they claimed this transaction was “consistent with ...

“Your email address can often be used to associate you ... Hackers often impersonate well-known companies like Amazon or PayPal to trick recipients into clicking malicious links.

You’ll get a legitimate invoice email from PayPal -- but the clever criminals have attached their email address to yours. When you click the link inside the email, you inadvertently attach their ...

Some people are seeing PayPal show up as a payment option inside their Facebook account and they say they never added it ...