Paypal – Well Eye Never

My scam email posts are consistently some of the most viewed on my blog, with various search requests leading people here. And that’s great, because it proves people are checking whether things are genuine or not, and so it’s helping to raise a bit of awareness.

I haven’t made any posts like that for a few months, because I haven’t received any emails that are different to the ones I’ve mentioned before. Thankfully the spam I get is still quite infrequent. But last week I had 4 copies of the same scam email sent to my blog’s email address in the space of a few minutes, relating to a company I haven’t mentioned yet – PayPal.

The signs to look out for are the same as ever, but are always worth repeating. Especially given that PayPal are so widely used, so scams that try to target its users are extremely common. So anything that helps to raise awareness of such fraudulent activity is always worth publishing. So here’s the email I got, and why it’s clearly fake.