Paypal Fake Emails

King Arceus

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I want to inform everyone about fake emails that the sender looks like Paypal. At first your brain may read it as Paypal but if you look closely at the last letter, it is actually an uppercase I, not an l. If you look at the email address it is not from the paypal.com domain. This is red flag number 2. If you hover over any of the links in the email it is a completely different domain. You should always hover over any links, particularly in emails to verify what website you will be visiting because you never know if it will look like the real thing. Finally, you'll also notice in the email it mentions about if it is marked as "Spam" it is junk. An authentic email from Paypal will never say that. I'll attach a screenshot of what the email I received looked like. The black strikethrough is the email address I have attached to the Paypal account which I don't want displaying publicly.

If you are not certain if an email is authentic, Paypal's website states to forward it to [email protected]

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My theory is that the fake website it links to steals your login information for Paypal and also tries to collect your credit card number if you choose to confirm your card. I haven't actually visited the fake site because I don't want to have any malware downloaded.
 
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