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- Butler, NJ, USA • Oct 14, 2025
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Received an email from verified PayPal

Email address and it appears I was b’ccd. Email was send to myself and “Invoice Update [email protected]” stating Recurring Payment Reactivation for an iPhone 17 Pro Max 512 GB that I did not purchase. Website was listed as Apple Store USA with a hyperlink and message stating “A transaction of ????????.???? USD was detected.If this wasn’t you, please call (??????) ??????-???????? to stop the payment”

The email also stated the payments were recurring until cancellation and the amount per cycle was ¥4999.00 JPY

I clicked on the PayPal links at the bottom for Help & Contact but did not follow the Apple link or call the phone number. I do not see any pending transactions on my

PayPal account and forwarded the email the phishing inbox at PayPal

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- New Brunswick, NJ, USA • Oct 14, 2025
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Recurring Payment Reactivated

Your Merchant has reactivated the following recurring payment. Please contact your merchant with questions.

Product/Service: iPhone 17 Pro Max 512 GB

Profile ID: ************** Merchant Name: Apple Store

Customer Service URL: https://www.applestore.usa.com?Call?PayPal?Support?+1-805-500-6482

Customer Service Email: [email protected]

Message From Merchant: A transaction of ????????.???? USD was detected.If this wasn’t you, please call (??????) ??????-???????? to stop the payment

Recurring Payment Details

Total Cycles: Until cancellation

Amount Per Cycle: ¥4999.00 JPY

Next Payment Date: Nov 11, 2025

Payment Method: Available Funding Source

PayPal

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- Springfield, NJ, USA • Aug 28, 2025
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Received e-mail purporting to be from Paypal indicating a charge to Kraken.com

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- Nutley, NJ, USA • Aug 18, 2025
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Received an mail indicating that I have an outstanding balance of $632.75

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- Rio Grande, NJ, USA • Aug 07, 2025
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Payment Warning: A transaction of $882.97 to Gemini.com was detected.If this wasn’t you, please call (805) 500- 6642 to stop the payment. Protecting you from fraud is our priority. invited you as a developer

I have never had a paypal account and the following was also included:

PayPal Payment Alert

805 500- 6642

PayPal alerted you of a transaction of $882.97 to Gemini.com and advises you to call for fraud protection.

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Create a PayPal account to review the invite. here

If the transaction to Gemini.com was not authorized by you, call the provided number to stop the payment.

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- North Bergen, NJ, USA • Aug 04, 2025
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Payment warning, a transaction of $746.87 to Gemini.com was detected.

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- East Orange, NJ, USA • Jul 21, 2025
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You have an invite from Payment warning: A transaction of $783.59 to Gemini.com was detected. If this wasn't you please call 805-500-6859 to stop the payment. Protecting you from fraud is our priority.

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- Toms River, NJ, USA • Jul 10, 2025
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Phishing email pretending to be frrom Paypal. :You have an invite from Payment Warning: A transaction of $846.27 to Gemini.com was detected.If this wasn’t you, please call (805) 500- 6398 to stop the payment. Protecting you from fraud is our priority. "

email had a reply to showing as : [email protected]

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- Ocean View, NJ, USA • Jun 01, 2025
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This email is addressed to [email protected], but was sent to my email address. In giant font the message reads "You have an invite from Payment Warning: A transaction of $895.23 to Coinbase Inc was detected. If this wasn't you, please call (805) 500-6782 to stop the payment. Protecting you from fraud is our priority." At the top of the page is a "Visit Site" button and the bottom of the page looks like a legit business page (Paypal is committed to preventing fraudulent emails... etc)

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- Westfield, NJ, USA • May 29, 2025
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Email sent saying a bitcoin transaction was being made.

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- Hillside, NJ, USA • Mar 10, 2025
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I received an email saying that I have Paid 679.99 PHP to www.target.com:- and that If I didn't recognized the seller to please contact PayPal at +1(888)759-0072(Toll-Free. Proceeded to tell me that If I didn't reach out, the transaction would be approved. It had a transaction ID that read ***************** with a transaction of today's date and a shipping address to Florida to a person named Tracy Livera (not me) addressed to 305 Windcliffee CT, Oviedo,Fl 32765-8645 United States. Another red flag was that the email was supposed to be sent to Tracy Levera at [email protected] but, I was the one receiving it. (not my name and not my email). Of course, I didn't believe any of it, so I ignored it.

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- Bordentown, NJ, USA • Mar 05, 2025
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Approached by email with pretend PayPal invoice from Moses Uvalle

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- Sterling, IL, USA
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I called PayPal. An order I placed online showed that PayPal (my method of payment for the order) had a random email, not my email address. I called them to correct it. After, they said they needed to transfer me to their fraud dept that my account had been compromised. the person (Daniel?) I was transferred to said he needed information to trace people that were trying to make large purchases from my accounts. Thinking he was going to help me, I gave him my bank information. He had me pay Charity Wheat $500, saying that it wouldn't actually charge me, it was just needed to look into my account. He had me download an app so that he could see the screen on my phone that I was seeing. He had me go thru a bunch of different placed on my phone. He had me go into my bank account to see that the payment of $500 didn't actually go thru. I had just followed his directions of checking different areas. He then said I needed to immediately go to my bank and withdraw $13000 in cash and not tell them what it was for because they would freeze my acct and the scammers would see this and attack my accounts thru the dark web and steal my identity. After going to my bank, I explained to them what was going on and they said to stop speaking to him and close my accounts. So now I am out $500 and having to establish new accounts. I'm just lucky I didn't lose more. The phone number I called for PayPal customer service was (888)221-1161. The number she transferred my call to was (859)489-7184 who was supposed to be from PayPal-some type of fraud prevention dept.

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- Englewood, NJ, USA
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I received a false invoice, ostensibly from PayPal, for a Bitcoin purchase in the amount of $428.94. I called the phone number on the invoice to request its cancellation. The person on the other end, who has a pronounced (Asian) Indian accent, identified himself as Justin Soley. He tried to convince me my bank account had been hacked and I needed to transfer funds in person by wire at my local branch to another account. I hung up on him, and did not give him my bank account number, Social Security number, or any other private data that's not readily available to the public.

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- Englishtown, NJ, USA
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Told me he needed my SS number and bank account numbers to process the reversal of money owed from me to PayPal.

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- Middletown, NJ, USA
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Please see below copy of the email and attachment to that email.

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Order Confirmation ****************** 2 messages

Alice Deaux <[email protected]> Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 9:00 AM To:

Hello,

We are delighted to notify you that your recent order was successfully verified. You can trace your

package using the tracking number that was supplied.

If you have any questions, please contact us. Sincerely,

Alice Deaux

QJQATJKMZPUSSPIMCXB3EEBVA.pdf

38K

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with below attachment

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Dear, [email protected]

We appreciate you finishing up your initial PayPal payment. We are pleased to inform you that your order was successfully validated. As soon as the transaction was complete, PayPal debited your checking account.

Order Description

Transaction ID BTC USO

*************** 0.099 $690.90

Taxes $10.00

Total amount $700.90

NOTE:

• It may take several hours for the account you have to reflect the payment.

• Your buying invoice was promptly created.

About this subject, do you have any further questions? Please contact your customer service department, which is available around-the-clock, to make changes to your order.

Call us at: +1-828-414-1758

_________________

I called that #1-828-414-1758 (Blowing Rock, NC) and hung up, as no one answered. Twenty-eight (28) minutes later, I rec'd a returned call from 806-416-3956 (Lubbock, TX) from a man with a foreign accent of Indian-like descent. He asked for the email information and said I had purchased bit coin and that he'd received many complaints of same purchases that were not authorized and that he would help me cancel the order. Then asked me to go onto the computer and enter: "www.anydesk.com/search". He gave add'l instructions, at which point I said - I think you're fraudulent and I'm reporting you to BBB. Then he got off the phone.</[email protected]>

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I received an email asking me to pay $649 as outstanding invoice for thing or service I never ordered.

Ignacio Vega

001 8778081564

You don't have any payments with this seller in the last year.

Invoice details

Amount requested

$649.09 USD

Note from seller

+1 (877) 808-1564

Invoice number

****

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I received a email from PayPal informing me about a purchase of $820. There was a number to call however I was not comfortable with whom I was speaking I hung up. I then called my bank Chime. In going through the prompts to speak with someone a voice came on and proceeded to tell me he worked for Chime and would assist me. He then directed me to download an app called desk. Which gave him access to my account.

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- West Berlin, NJ, USA
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Pretended to be PayPal verifying a purchase. Wanted me to buy 4 $500.00 walmart giftcards.

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- Frisco, TX, USA
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I received an email stating my PayPal account was charged $349.99 for a microscope I did not order. When I called the number, there was a lot of background noise and someone with a thick accent on the other line. I told them I did not order a microscope from them and wanted to know how they got my paypal information. They quickly told me they would remove all charges as soon as I verified my ID and NOT to login to Paypal directly but to download an app on my phone which allowed them to share my screen on my phone. They then told me to login to PayPal and showed me where there had been bitcoin charges that I did not authorize as well as several other charges from 70$ to $3000+ loan. They then asked me to login to my ***** credit card and **** **** account on my phone and got mad when I looked it up on my personal computer to verify if I had been charged like they said I had been. They were quite pushy and then transferred me to a "manger" who was also pushy, telling me "I told you not to login that way." When I did not see any charges to my ***** credit card or my bank account, I quickly hung up and deleted the screen share app (I can't remember the name but it ended in "..desk"). I have attached the email for your records.

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