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Post by lolly on Jul 20, 2020 12:25:16 GMT 1
just had an email from from John Lewis and Partners saying that my £500 make up order will be delivered shortly . The payment was via paypal ; there was an option to "cancel order" .
i checked my paypal account and there was no such transaction ; i then went back to the email and clicked on to "cancel" that sent me to another web page and "cancel" option ; i clicked on "cancel" and that sent me to a dummy paypal web site .
i tried to contact paypal to report it but they are too busy
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Post by steve h on Jul 20, 2020 12:27:01 GMT 1
Had you actually spent £500 with John Lewis and Partners?
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Post by flames on Jul 20, 2020 12:29:07 GMT 1
Did the e mail from John Lewis give a delivery address for the make up? Might be worth passing details on to police if it does?
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Post by lolly on Jul 20, 2020 12:29:10 GMT 1
no ; no transaction with John Lewis ;at first i thought it was my wife ; so i contacted her ; they are hoping people will cancel ; then enter there paypal details into their fake paypal website
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Post by tony2stroke on Jul 20, 2020 12:32:10 GMT 1
Hope you haven't caught a virus now, never ever click on a link, did I say "never", If you hover over the address of the sender it will show you the real address of the sender.
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Post by flames on Jul 20, 2020 12:36:32 GMT 1
So john Lewis e mail was also fake? To link you to the fake PayPal site.
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Post by lolly on Jul 20, 2020 12:39:28 GMT 1
So john Lewis e mail was also fake? To link you to the fake PayPal site. all fake ; just checked my paypal account again ; no £500 transaction with John Lewis ;
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Post by steve h on Jul 20, 2020 12:43:15 GMT 1
Hope you haven't caught a virus now, never ever click on a link, did I say "never", If you hover over the address of the sender it will show you the real address of the sender. Correct, don't open something that appertains to an act that never took place. We get this shite all the time as well as the pigeon English sex pill adverts....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2020 12:56:07 GMT 1
If you get an email that you think is dodgy there are a few clues that will alert you
First and foremost do not click on an attachment or link
The vendor will address you by your name, most scammers won’t, delete it
look at the language used, is it properly written in your language or are there grammatical errors, if so delete
As Tony says hover on the senders email address it will give you the originating email address, check this against the business email address they should match and not be some gobbledygook gook, delete it
Log into your PayPal perhaps on another device to see if there is a transaction, if no transaction delete the email
Contact the supposed vendor to double check, if they say huh, delete the email
HTH
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Post by JonW on Jul 20, 2020 13:56:55 GMT 1
The simplest way to tell if its real or not is the email address it comes from. Paypal sends emails from {something}@paypal.co.uk or similar, not tr67gh@hsdjkhsdkjad.to or somesuch.
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Post by lolly on Jul 20, 2020 14:00:31 GMT 1
The simplest way to tell if its real or not is the email address it comes from. Paypal sends emails from {something}@paypal.co.uk or similar, not tr67gh@hsdjkhsdkjad.to or somesuch. the email wasnt from paypal ; it was from the store
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Post by JonW on Jul 20, 2020 14:07:56 GMT 1
Same rules apply doddy, I bet it wasnt from accounts@JohnLewis.co.uk or whatever the address really is.
Contact John Lewis and tell them about it or forward the email to them. There are also places to send scam emails for tracking this problem as well. Have a google and it may give you someone to contact if you still want to let people know.
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Post by ajh on Jul 20, 2020 14:31:18 GMT 1
like the email address if you hover or maybe right click on the cancel button they provide, you should be able to see the web address and importantly the domain(paypal.com) they are sending you to. If it were real it would be somehting like paypal.com/logon or accounts.paypal.co.uk, not paypalscam.com/login or paypal.scam.co.uk
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Post by chrisg on Jul 20, 2020 14:36:09 GMT 1
like the email address if you hover or maybe right click on the cancel button they provide, you should be able to see the web address and importantly the domain(paypal.com) they are sending you to. If it were real it would be somehting like paypal.com/logon or accounts.paypal.co.uk, not paypalscam.com/login or paypal.scam.co.uk I get probably 1 a week from Barclays telling me that my bank has spotted suspicious transactions and could I log in to verify them. I know these are scams because I don’t bank with Barclays 🙈
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Post by steve h on Jul 20, 2020 16:23:59 GMT 1
like the email address if you hover or maybe right click on the cancel button they provide, you should be able to see the web address and importantly the domain(paypal.com) they are sending you to. If it were real it would be somehting like paypal.com/logon or accounts.paypal.co.uk, not paypalscam.com/login or paypal.scam.co.uk I get probably 1 a week from Barclays telling me that my bank has spotted suspicious transactions and could I log in to verify them. I know these are scams because I don’t bank with Barclays 🙈 It would be nice to be able to "cyber attack" the t**ts.
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Post by flames on Jul 20, 2020 20:04:34 GMT 1
Be better to stick em in a room and reality attack them👹
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