08001026599

Someone keeps acting like they're Windows Defender Security Centre on my PC, blocking me from using it unless I agree to their so called help. This has happened twice already and it's getting really annoying.

***PHISHING CON - DON'T FALL FOR IT*** Got an email claiming it was from ‘Paypal’ with a bill for £499 for an iPad mini I never ordered. The email was sent from some dodgy address like [email protected] and had an old address of mine on it. Obviously a total scam, but I was so annoyed I rang the ‘Paypal helpline’ number they provided. Predictably, it was an Indian call centre and the bloke on the phone told me to open my laptop and go to www.amazonorder.20.weebly.com. I couldn’t help but laugh at how unprofessional that website looked *rolls eyes*. I reckon he was going to try and get remote access to my machine and load all kinds of malware. It’s frightening though, because these scammers sound really convincing and plenty of people could get caught out.

***PHISHING ALERT - DON'T FALL FOR THEIR RUBBISH*** Got an email claiming to be from 'Paypal' with a receipt for a £499 iPad mini I definitely didn’t order. Clearly a scam, but I was so annoyed I rang their so-called 'Paypal support' free number just to see what they’d say. Unsurprisingly, it was an Indian call centre, and the bloke told me to open a dodgy website on my PC. I had to burst out laughing at the sketchy web address he gave me - total nonsense. Pretty sure he was trying to get remote access to my computer for some dodgy software installation or whatever. It’s worrying though, cos loads of folks could easily get tricked by these scumbags who sound way too convincing.

Got an email supposedly from PayPal telling me they charged me £499 for an iPad I never bought. It even gave a phone number, 08001026599, to call if there were any problems. Thankfully, I actually use Payoneer instead of PayPal, so it was clear to me straight away that this was a scam.

On the 8th of February 2022, I got two dodgy emails within a day. One claimed to be from "Amazon" (odd sender address, if you ask me) and the other supposedly from "PayPal." Apparently, I bought a bed through Amazon and an iPad using PayPal - which I honestly can’t recall, probably had a few too many drinks again! What really unsettled me was that the PayPal scam email included my real name and home address - never seen that before in these kinds of dodgy messages. I rang EE, who told me the number linked to the scam had been reported by several financial companies, but they couldn’t reveal who owns it due to data protection restrictions - they just looked it up online. It’s ridiculous how strict privacy laws often help these fraudsters get away with it. If scam numbers got disconnected as soon as they were flagged, we wouldn’t be stuck reading comments like these, or worse, people getting caught out by these scams. I’ve updated my passwords, activated two-factor authentication, and reported the whole situation to PayPal.

I just got this email saying I ordered a mattress from Amazon for like £486, but I never bought anything. It’s meant to be sent to some random person in California as a present or something. The weird part is, the email didn’t come from an official Amazon account. They did use my postcode though, but not much else that looked right. Pretty dodgy if you ask me!

Got a call from this number earlier and the voicemail sounded pretty scary, mentioning some legal trouble if I didn't ring back. Made me feel a bit uneasy, to be honest.

this number seems totally unfamiliar to me. i checked my recent calls and it’s not there anywhere. no clue who it could be, so i’m just gonna block it!

Can anyone tell me where this number might be from? Cheers.

Got a message saying they’re gonna take £499 from my PayPal tomorrow, supposedly. What freaked me out was that it looked like it came straight from PayPal - it didn’t even end up in my junk folder. They even used my full name and an old address I haven’t lived at for eight years. I’ve reported it to PayPal, changed my password, and activated 2-factor authentication just in case.

I got an email claiming to be from PayPal saying I was charged £499 for a new iPad. It told me to ring a "helpline" on 08001026599 if I had any problems. The message did have my real name and part of my address, which made it seem legit at first. However, checking the sender’s email showed something like pahshsmagshs, definitely not PayPal. I’m pretty sure that number is just a scam where they try to trick you into giving personal info by asking "security questions". My advice? Don’t even bother calling and block the sender straight away.