Are you a GMail.com e-mail account holder? Your "spam folder" may be filled from time to time with spoof e-mails from companies trying to pose itself as PayPal. Though they are not the real PayPal company, they send fraudulent e-mails as if they are PayPal, most times asking you to click on something to either reactivate your PP account or share login information. If you ever receive such e-mails and the title of the e-mail says "account on hold," do not open it and immediately delete it from your spam folder. Better yet, don't even bother checking your GMail spam folder. Nine times out of 10, it's fraud messages. Bypass it and do not open the message n or respond.
Scam company sending fraud messages:
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from: PayPal <support at paycard.americanpayroll.org> (scam artist)
to: PayPal <support at paycard.americanpayroll.org> (scam artist)
date: Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:29 PM
subject: PayPal: Account on hold, Action required
The following message is NOT from PayPal:
Dear User, Your PayPal account has expired, therefore you must reactivate it immediately or it will be closed automatically. If you intend to use this service in the future in 2015, you must take action at once! To reactivate your account, simply visit the following page and login with your account. Login Page: (hyperlink deactivated by DrewryNewsNetwork.com) Sincerely, PayPal Support |
DrewryNewsNetwork.com received this fraudulent spam e-mail on May 22, 2015.
Ignore companies that pose as PayPal trying to send you e-mails encouraging you to click on something to login to your account. The best way to know if a message is sincerely from PayPal.com is to create a seperate e-mail address and only use that for PayPal transactions. In other words, don't give out the e-mail address to anyone: that includes your family, friends, co workers, or even your spouse. This way, you can rest assured knowing PayPal genuinely sent you the message.
Hopefully, this will open your eyes and mind to the non-stop shucking and jiving some companies and people do in secret in hopes to 'juxing' your PayPal account.