I just got a fake spoofing email from PayPal that fooled me. I just got off the phone with PayPal, and they told me that it 100% was spoofing and not from them.
This is what the email looked like:
Now, there were links in the body of the email, and when I clicked on it on my phone… it went weird, and I didn’t trust it. I immediately exited, went to PayPal, changed my password, and changed my password to my email. Then I spent 20 minutes on the phone with PayPal, who says that this email was 100% fake.
The reason why I trusted it?
It came from paypal@paypal.com using my real name.
Yeah. Let that sink in.
According to PayPal, they will NEVER include links in the body of their emails. If you received an email like this, immediately report it for phishing.
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