I know it is a scam but shall I be worried?
Found it in my junk folder but, until now, there were legitimate mails.
From PayPal Recurring (never used PayPal)
Hello,
Thank you for doing Business with us. Your invoice is attached to this message
Date Nov 13 2020 and the amount due is $475.95.
Happy to help at 609 736 0991
???
No, of course I am not calling but just wondering whether any of my accounts may have been hacked.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Just means someone has your email.
MyOwnPeace
(17,273 posts)Get them several times a week - mostly from PayPal and Amazon. Usually my "account" has been shut down and by calling (or responding) with my "correct" credit card number they will be able to "get things back up and running!"
"DELETE" is your friend!
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(48,797 posts)mitch96
(14,651 posts)bites... If you are really concerned notify Paypal.. They are good about this stuff..
m
elleng
(136,043 posts)tried to phone them 3X yesterday, 'unavailable.'
'My' message was 'thanks for buying applephone, for $445; confirmation of transaction will take a few days. Call if you want.'
Nothing like 'progress.'
question everything
(48,797 posts)I never all the phone number from messages on my cell phone but I often google the numbers.
Here is another one
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-609-736-0991
WheelWalker
(9,199 posts)be asking you to pay something. They'd just take it.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)hacked. Yet. They have a million ways of getting email addresses, even just randomly generating them, so they probably just picked yours up somewhere.
The idea is that if they send out a million of these and get 10 answers with 2 paying, they actually made a little money. They really luck out if you open the attachment and download bad stuff.
If you can read the full headers, you can see where it really came from, but that's probably phony anyway. Best thing to do is forward it to your ISP and/or mail provider and PayPal and let them deal with it. Or just trash it.
I use PayPal, and they don't send out stuff like that. They ask you to log in through their real website, and don't give you bad links. They're big enough to have seen this far too often already.
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(48,797 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)So, I wouldn't worry too much. It's easy to get a block of email addresses and just chum with them.
Worse, I just got a lot of error messages for emails I supposedly sent to nonexistent addresses. That would mean a lot more of them were received-- so, who got emails claiming to be from me?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Midnight Writer
(22,971 posts)samnsara
(18,282 posts)question everything
(48,797 posts)safeinOhio
(34,069 posts)for all of your info. They will will ask for account #s SS and such.
My worst hack was trying to pay for subscription to a local news paper. Called number from the news paper site to sign up and got some far away person. Took my CC info and didn't hear back. End of the month my card was getting charges for food deliveries in NY NY. Had to cancel my CC and get a new number and jump thru other hoops.
Good luck and never trust Emails.