WARNING re increase in "PayPal" phishing attempts
Over the last 48 hours or so, there appears to have been a dramatic
increase in fake "PayPal" invoices. While these are fairly obvious
relatively, many people may still panic and call the phone numbers
(they vary) listed. That is how the phishing attackers gather your
information and/or try to get you to let them take over your computer.
While it is possible to send fake invoices through PayPal that seem
more genuine, the ones I've seen today aren't going through PayPal
at all (they have all been Microsoft Outlook sourced) except to use
PayPal URLs for images, and information links.
The best advice is to just delete these. Do not respond, do not call the
phone number or numbers listed. Given that most of these currently that
I've seen don't even come through PayPal, reporting them to PayPal is
probably a waste of time, but that's up to you.
L
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