OT: PayPal Fraud?

[Ozz]

So this is weird....got an email today was a paypal receipt for a purchase at Coles Supermarkets (Australia)...it was an online purchase for $188

I checked my Paypal account, and didn't see any activity on it...

Email address of sender of receipt was: "noreply@choiceindia.com"

checked out Choice India...they appear to some sort of online bank?

I am wondering if someone set up a PayPal account with my email address??

Any other thoughts?

Thanks.

[nmrt]

if you clicked on any link in that email to get to paypal.com, you might have downloaded malware in your computer.

since your actual paypal account does not show those weird transactions, you should be good to go. i think this choiceindia email could simply be "junk" email waiting you do click any link inside it.

[mistermo]

Originally Posted by Ozz

Any other thoughts?

Phishing email. Betcha that paypal message wasn't from Paypal. Hope you didn't click on anything within.

[noonan1970]

Forward that email to Spoof@paypal.com

[Ozz]

no, didn't click on anything....saw on phone and went to computer to look stuff up. Phishing sounds about right.....

[ultraman6970]

They are fishing...

[John H.]

Never click on a PayPal email. Banks too for that matter.
Only go to the website.

[mistermo]

Originally Posted by John H.

Never click on a PayPal email. Banks too for that matter.
Only go to the website.

Or Netflix or Spotify or Amazon or eBay or google or ....dozens of these I get all the time. Always go to site.

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by Ozz

So this is weird....got an email today was a paypal receipt for a purchase at Coles Supermarkets (Australia)...it was an online purchase for $188

I checked my Paypal account, and didn't see any activity on it...

Email address of sender of receipt was: "noreply@choiceindia.com"

checked out Choice India...they appear to some sort of online bank?

I am wondering if someone set up a PayPal account with my email address??

Any other thoughts?

Thanks.

I've gotten 2 or 3 of these and with a link at the bottom saying something to the effect if this charge isn't accurate click 'HERE'..don't click 'THERE'..that's how they will bag you. Yup, check your PP account, see that it's Phishing and delete/trash the email.