Lucky enough to have a wife that questions about odd looking stuff on email. She has an iPad and got what appeared to be a receipt from PayPal for $150, the email had a prominent link along the lines of "if this is not correct click here".
I checked the PayPal account which showed no activity, so knew it was a scam. Opened her email account on the laptop which shows the email sender name (payPal address) and the ACTUAL email address ([email protected]).
Email deleted. No harm done.
With the high use of tablets and variety of email clients I thought this was worth sharing. Please beware.
Thanks
I have seen a similar message but as I work a lot in the Middle East I assumed it was a local phenomenon...
any communication fro paypal will start with your full name, most (if not all) scams begin with "dear member"
same with bank/credit card etc frauds
Ignore all unsolicited emails from banks and PayPal.
Never click on any links in emails, if you need to check open your browser and type in the URL
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Lucky enough to have a wife that questions about odd looking stuff on email. .
I wish my wife wouldn't 
The safest way to keep you bank account safe from scammer is to draw and spend everything by yourself as quick a possible.
unless you have overdraft facility ..
You never actually need to read or respond to emails from bank or PayPal. Log in and read news or communication on their site.
I had a email that looked like it was from the ATO saying click link to verify return of $6,435. Its getting harder to work out who is who on the emails now.
fortunately I knew I wasnt getting a return like that and blocked sender as junk.
I also get a lot that look like they are from my own email address, but I just block them as junk and no problems.
Gmail has a really cool feature you can use, with a bit of practise, to stop this stuff dead in it's tracks.
support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en&visit_id=637202967559393707-895188494&rd=1
You can use +xxx with your gmail address.
So if I had [email protected] I could use:
[email protected] as my email address when dealing with tax office.
[email protected] for a post on seabreeze
etc.
and it all goes to [email protected]
This has a triple effect -
a/you can see at a glance if the incoming mail matches the address it should and
b/ if you start getting spam addressed to [email protected]
Then you know either mike's electrical has been hacked or they're dodgy buggers who've sold you onto a list and you can ask them which and
c/ you can set a rule to block anything incoming to that particular address and you're instantly off the list.
