By Staff
March 12th, 2018
BURLINGTON, ON
This is a real sneaky one.
The message tells you that you sent an amount of money from your Pay Pal account to someone you’ve never heard of – what do you do?
You might be inclined to click on the link to tell PayPal that you didn’t send this person any money. Which is exactly what the sender of the message wants you to do. They are in the process of stealing your identity.
They have your email address and they now know you have a PayPal account.
An email message like this gets an immediate response if you have a PayPal account – you want to tell them that you didn’t do what the email message says you did. The moment you do that – they have started to steak your identity.
It did look like the message was from PayPal – their logo was on that incoming email.
When there is an email related to your money, pause and look at it very carefully. PayPal is a useful service (although I don’t understand why they need 3 to 5 business days to put money into your account – Interac does it instantly)
Careful – and make sure that you have subscribed to a service that will catch some of the maleware that get dropped into your computer.
