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It seems like most of these bogus PayPal calls come from one telecom provider. Over the past month, I’ve flagged about 75 suspicious ‘PayPal’ numbers to them. Colt Technology just keeps letting those scammers get fresh numbers, which is really frustrating. I get that the crook might be signed up through a reseller, but Colt Technology definitely could step up and do more to stop these fraudsters using their network.

I got in touch with PayPal and have now lodged a formal complaint as follows: On the 19th of December 2022, around 8am, I spoke to Toni, a PayPal supervisor in the Limitations Department based in the Philippines - the call was recorded. My concern is that even after at least three weeks since the police article was published on 24/11/22 warning about a scam involving PayPal (see link below), customers are still at risk. How do I know it’s been ongoing at least that long? Because I personally received an email identical to the one described in the police report. The scam emails are coming from what appear to be valid PayPal email addresses ([email protected]), which then mislead PayPal users into sending money to scammers. This is completely unacceptable, especially after all this time. Neither I nor, I suspect, other PayPal customers have received any warning or alert emails from PayPal about this ongoing fraud. Why? Also, when it comes to the transaction pages, why doesn’t your system check the content under the ‘Note’ section properly? For example, the ‘Note’ in my case included this line: "...If the transaction is unauthorized, contact our customer support team @ +44 800 058 4294." Which leads customers straight into a possible phone scam as well. This is not the standard expected of a major financial company. What actions does PayPal plan to take? I’ll be taking this up with the Financial Conduct Authority too. Cheers.

I got a weird PayPal payment request for 879 quid from someone called Prof Hyatt Hyatt, but it was obviously dodgy so I just cancelled it and blocked the person. Here's the weird bit: in these payment requests, the requester can leave a note, and this scammer tried to make it look like an official PayPal message. But PayPal never actually fills in those notes - they're normally for stuff like invoice numbers or references from tradespeople. This note said something like, "You've Paid £879.99 to TotalAV. If this wasn't you, call customer support at +44 800 058 4294." Thing is, the request wasn’t from TotalAV at all, it was coming from this Prof Hyatt Hyatt PayPal account. So they were clearly trying to confuse people with that note and push them to call a fake support number, which belongs to the scammers and has zero connection to PayPal.

Got an email from Paypal asking me to pay £879.99 to someone called Mellie Emmerich. The message said to ring 08000584294 if I didn’t recognise the payment, which I absolutely don’t. No idea what this is supposed to be about, feels like a dodgy charge to me.

Got a dodgy message on PayPal asking for money that wasn’t legit. It looked like a scam to me. Best move was to report it straight away and block the PayPal account involved.

Got a dodgy PayPal message asking me to pay £879.99 for TotalAV. Luckily, I reported it straight away, switched my password, and rang up my bank just in case.

Just received a message like this too. It said: Meda OConnell has asked you for money Payment details Requested amount £879.99 GBP MESSAGE FROM Meda OConnell: You’ve paid £879.99 GBP to TotalAV. If this wasn’t you, please call our support team at +44 800 058 4294 Transaction ID U-39191891G3010090K Date of transaction 18th December 2022

Had the exact same experience just now.

We just had the exact same call, asking for £879.99, from someone called 'Viviane Marks' using the same phone number.

I got a PayPal request asking me to pay 879.99, and this number was listed in the message they sent along with it.

Something quite similar just happened to me. I got a payment demand for £879 from someone named Profy Purdy showing up in my PayPal app. The phone number they gave was supposedly customer service in the email, but when I looked it up on Google, it wasn’t the real customer service at all. This is a really clever scam, and honestly, I’m feeling pretty anxious about it.

Just got a text saying I’d approved a PayPal payment for £879.99 to Total AV under a name Brandon Kofer. I went straight to my PayPal and cancelled it. I hardly use my PayPal anyway, so I’m thinking of shutting it down now. Seems like this might be one of those new scams that are going around a lot.

I got the same text and for the same sum, so it’s prob a spam caller.

This number is definitely linked to a scam. The email might look like it’s from PayPal, but it’s not them at all. Please don’t ring this number if you get one of those emails telling you to do so. It’s a fake.

I got this message about 12:45 and I reported it straight away to PayPal as I recognised it was a phishing scam. They started the necessary steps to help stop anymore problems like this. It’d be so helpful if PayPal included a button in their emails to decline payment requests, rather than only having the option to send money to these scammers. Please check your account and make sure to decline any suspicious payment requests!