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A new Paypal scam
Found two variations in my spam folder today.
Dear Customer,
Thank you for placing an order with PayPal. Your order description is given below.
We have received your order request and the charge has been authorised.
Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop, Intel i7-10750H
1350 USD
Your order was placed on 05/27/2021 and will reach your doorsteps on 05/29/2021.
If you want to make changes to this order or cancel this order, please call immediately at + 1-833-999-9999 (number obfuscated for obvious reasons)
Spelling is good, albeit British. The main difference with the second message was a slightly different phone number, different high-end laptop, and it was shipping to a different address.
The 833 telephone exchange is a toll-free exchange.
There was one major difference between the two emails: the first contained blocked graphics, probably lifted the Paypal graphics from their web site to look more authentic and might have embedded tracking pixels to see if you opened the email. I block all inbound graphics, so no tracking pixels ever activate unless I decide to load graphics, which is very rare. The second message had no embedded graphics! Quite surprising, that!
Obviously they want to frighten you into panicking and calling their number, in which I expect a person with an Indian accent will run you through phone tag. I can't imagine how this plays out, and I'm not going to bother finding out: if you call, since they're paying for an 833 number, they get all your call info and will sell that info to other scammers. If I could call from a pay phone, I would consider it, but I'm not sure where any are around here.
Dear Customer,
Thank you for placing an order with PayPal. Your order description is given below.
We have received your order request and the charge has been authorised.
Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop, Intel i7-10750H
1350 USD
Your order was placed on 05/27/2021 and will reach your doorsteps on 05/29/2021.
If you want to make changes to this order or cancel this order, please call immediately at + 1-833-999-9999 (number obfuscated for obvious reasons)
Spelling is good, albeit British. The main difference with the second message was a slightly different phone number, different high-end laptop, and it was shipping to a different address.
The 833 telephone exchange is a toll-free exchange.
There was one major difference between the two emails: the first contained blocked graphics, probably lifted the Paypal graphics from their web site to look more authentic and might have embedded tracking pixels to see if you opened the email. I block all inbound graphics, so no tracking pixels ever activate unless I decide to load graphics, which is very rare. The second message had no embedded graphics! Quite surprising, that!
Obviously they want to frighten you into panicking and calling their number, in which I expect a person with an Indian accent will run you through phone tag. I can't imagine how this plays out, and I'm not going to bother finding out: if you call, since they're paying for an 833 number, they get all your call info and will sell that info to other scammers. If I could call from a pay phone, I would consider it, but I'm not sure where any are around here.
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