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Got an email saying I bought a Seneca Double shot .50 cal via PayPal for $1,000. I called the number on the invoice and a guy with a thick Indian accent answered. I immediately hung up and called my credit card linked to my PayPal. No charges had been made. I assume had I talked to that Indian guy he would have asked for all my personal info, pretended to give me too much of a refund and demand the excess funds be returned to him in the form of gift cards. Anyone else seen this scam?
 

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Use1cc said:
Got an email saying I bought a Seneca Double shot .50 cal via PayPal for $1,000. I called the number on the invoice and a guy with a thick Indian accent answered. I immediately hung up and called my credit card linked to my PayPal. No charges had been made. I assume had I talked to that Indian guy he would have asked for all my personal info, pretended to give me too much of a refund and demand the excess funds be returned to him in the form of gift cards. Anyone else seen this scam?
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This is happening because Will Ferrell is doing those Awful PayPal commercials🤪
 
So did you notice some very obvious spam things? I don't do PP.... but if the pic you posted is showing the e-mail address at the top of your picture i doubt that address would be one of PP's or SA's emails for a purchase you made. And the phone number in the e-mail says at the top the # is helpdesk then at the bottom the # is support, no company especially a "bank" is going to put the same phone number for 2 different "desks" without extensions....

And just for S&Gs do you have a PP type receipt or e-mail to compare? How they are laid-out or compare the phone number with?

99.999999% of the time the e-mail address gives away the spam e-mails...

Oh yeah... welcome to TAL
 
no life said:
So did you notice some very obvious spam things? I don't do PP.... but if the pic you posted is showing the e-mail address at the top of your picture i doubt that address would be one of PP's or SA's emails for a purchase you made. And the phone number in the e-mail says at the top the # is helpdesk then at the bottom the # is support, no company especially a "bank" is going to put the same phone number for 2 different "desks" without extensions....

And just for S&Gs do you have a PP type receipt or e-mail to compare? How they are laid-out or compare the phone number with?

99.999999% of the time the e-mail address gives away the spam e-mails...

Oh yeah... welcome to TAL
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I got a few of them. I didn’t open them. I deleted them then went on my PayPal account. Nothing wrong there👍
 
First thing i keep teling my wife and mother, never, respond to a communication that you did not initiate using a known method. If you recieve something you believe to be real, and wish to communicate with look up a correct method yourself. Never use the method, numbers, or addresses. Once you are in touch with a live person at a trusted method they will tell you if the initial communication was real.
 
This one’s a little different…my husband has been getting phone calls from “Discover” telling him that they need my phone number because I applied for a card and they need to contact me.
Now…I already have a Discover card, and they know how to contact me. So the husband toys with them until they hang up. They have since changed their tactics and now call him saying the same thing except that they are from Citi Bank. 🙄 My Citi card is through Best Buy and they know how to contact me. My husband babysits boilers so he has the time to yank their chains, so to speak. Personally, I can’t believe they are so stupid as to keep calling him, but I guess it’s cheap entertainment for him. 😂
 
Use1cc said:
Got an email saying I bought a Seneca Double shot .50 cal via PayPal for $1,000. I called the number on the invoice and a guy with a thick Indian accent answered. I immediately hung up and called my credit card linked to my PayPal. No charges had been made. I assume had I talked to that Indian guy he would have asked for all my personal info, pretended to give me too much of a refund and demand the excess funds be returned to him in the form of gift cards. Anyone else seen this scam?
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Bought & sold many items using PayPal. A little over a year ago purchased some vape accessories on PayPal never did receive them. Called PayPal, basically told me I was s*** out of luck, closed my account.
 
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