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I continuously receive emails for purchases through a paypal account which I do not have and also stating charges to a credit card linked to account. I called the number and the gentleman is telling me I do have an account after I continuously tell him I do not and he states well your card was charged for $900 and I informed him, if he has any of my card numbers and a charge goes to any of my accounts he will be charged with fraud. I do not and never had a PayPal account cause I do not need one. I am at this time stating no I didn't lose money as I can not see if a transaction went through on any of my cards. Not sure at this point if there was attempt to take money.

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I received an odd looking invoice for 399.00

I called the customer care number and was informed that a card had been opened with my credentials. I didn't see these orders on my Paypal or Amazon accounts as they were stating but I wanted him to keep talking (as I changed all my passwords). He wanted me to go to my local Amazon counter and purchase something...I hung up as he was trying to explain this ridiculousness this wasted like 15 minutes of my life.

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- Old Bridge, NJ, USA
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I was told that to credit me for a PayPal purchase and due to PayPal servers being down I needed to send they 3-4 Zelle transactions to verify my Zelle account then they would send me my transactions back and apply the credit for the item. I ended up sending them $2000.00 and $100.00 from Applepay.

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- Passaic, NJ, USA
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I received an e-mail from "PayPal" saying that a suspicious activity was occurring in my account. Effectively, someone from China had hacked my account by adding his e-mail into my account. He also requested $999.99. The problem started when I decided to contact PayPal C.S. and try to solve the problem. I don't know how, the call was sent to this # 1888 909 0506 and from there, they started "helping me" with this. The lady from PayPal asked me to send the money by using the CashApp to initiate the process of reimbursement. The money was taken from my banking account to a name called TUAN NGUYEN for the above amount. I don't know how, they confused me and another guy called Frank was helping me. This guy, asked to get GIFT CARDS for the same value trying to cover the transaction and initiate the reimbursement... Unfortunately, the transaction didn't go thru the first time and he asked me to get more cards to fix the problem. This situation happened 7 times. Also, I received text msgs saying that the reimbursement process was initiated, but it never happened. Now, I got the sum of $7,000.00 taken out from my credit cards and $1,000.00 from my banking account. I've trying to contact this Frank again, and his number is always "Busy" when I call. I'm desperate because is a large amount they took from me. Hope they can find him and take him away from honest people that don't have the chance to think clearly when a situation like this happens to us.

This guy identified himself as a PayPal customer service and he was able to help me trying to remove the chinese guy from my profile and offered me a quick solution.... I was blinded and trusted him, now I got this debt that I have to pay to my credit card.

Also, I received 5 e-mails from "PayPal" saying they confirmed the change of my password, the new e-mail added into the PayPal account and so on, but according to PayPal, they never sent these emails on that date... Everything was a mess since there.

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I have attached a screenshot of an email claiming to be PAYPAL but is in fact fraudulent

The email is showing the sender's name as "[email protected]?ay??pal.c?om" which is one of Paypal's email address. However, that is just a disguise because the actual email address of the scammer is "[email protected]". The email was also sent to a large number of email addresses so it's obviously a part of mass marketing fraud

It seems apparent that scammers are getting smarter (or they try to). Be safe!

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This is a copy of the text in the email.

?ay?al

Your Account Need To Update Infos !

Dear Costumer ,

We regret to inform you of this bad new

We have put your account in the list of limited accounts

because your account isn't safe and we need a little bit to a few information to protect your account.

Click the button below and follow the steps simply

Yours Sincerely.

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- Allen, TX, USA
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The scammer is using paypal's name, saying you've been charged from playwith Interactives, Inc. email is obvious scam, they ask you to open a dispute with their resolution center if you have a problem with the 225,000 charge. Just check the address and you'll see it's not coming from paypal.

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I had an ad on kijiji far a combine for sale. He replied and wanted to buy it. He claimed he was working offshore but wanted it. He wantef to pay with paypal and would send a courier to pick it up. They then want more pics of the combine to see it better. Then decide to rake it. An email comes from paypal that you have recieved a payment andt the hipper is responsible for the shipping costs and transfer fees totaling $1100.00 and you need to send that by western Union or Moneygram so they can release your funds to your Paypal account.

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I have received 3 different emails, claiming to be from PayPal. Each tells me that I have made a transaction from - then lists the business - all three emails have used a different business. Then it tells me that if I have not made this purchase to contact the help centre at paypal, for which there is a link in the email. i can also click on another link that is called Preference Centre.

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