Just a reminder and warning to everybody. I got an email that claimed to be paypal asking me to do something because my account was frozen. I went directly to paypal (didn’t use the link in the email) and my account is fine.
Never saw a fake paypal email before. We are all stressed and maybe not paying enough attention so be on the lookout for this scam.
I’ve gotten tons of them and I don’t even have a paypal account.
I got one yesterday from “Amazon” telling me my CC had expired. I knew it was a scam but did online chat with Amazon to make sure.
Both me and my husband have had an Apple scammer tell us that our Apple account is locked.
I got the paypal one too. Hit the SPAM button.
If it isn’t Paypal, it’s Apple and if it isn’t the IRS calling, well today it was Social Security phone calling to say that my number had been compromised. Really? I hope these scammers all run out of toilet paper.
Earlier this week, I got a weird email from a citizen. 6 months ago he emailed me comments concerning a project and I replied with the usual “thank you for your time” response. This email was a reply to mine, but he said he was updating me on the project and gave a link/password. The only clues it was not valid was that I knew this citizen was likely not capable of setting up something like that, and any updates should have come from me. The email address was exactly the same and our entire correspondence was still there. I forwarded it to the IT crew who checked it out and said it was a “really nasty” virus that would have brought the city to its knees.
Yowie. Good for you for paying close attention.
Yeah, I got one about my Wells Fargo account - all I could do was laugh and say out loud “try again scammers, I don’t even HAVE a Wells Fargo account!”
I get the PayPal scam email all the time. I get Chase a lot, too. Look at the email address - it is ALWAYS weird if it’s fake.
I got one from NETFLIX, all caps. The address looked legit, but I didn’t open it.
Will be scary if they ever learn grammaticality correct English.
I’m pretty sure the Amazon one I got this week used my name. I deleted it already so can’t check, but I’m 99.9% sure.
Have gotten the paypal one lately. Sent it to paypal’s spam address . Watch for typos in their emails too.
Is your name part of your email address? Like, are you “emilybee@whateveremail.com”? Because for me, it’s not unusual at all to get spam with my “email name” inserted in the subject or the body. 99% of the time, my spam filter catches them, but I still have to check the spam folder for the 1% of the time when it catches a legitimate email.
If it did have your real name, but your email address is something unrelated, that would be concerning.
Yes, my name is!
My spam filter catches almost all of them, too. But I still need to check - especially because not all email addresses are in my contact list. I deliberately have done that for online retailers like Amazon, because otherwise my inbox would be inundated. I’m pretty sure the Amazon one I called about this week went to my suspect file. I usually ignore all Amazon and other online sites, except when I know I’ve ordered something and I did this week, which is the only reason I opened it at all.