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[catter70]

This is the third email I've received for Paypal since late last week. I have no account or have never had a account with Paypal. Last 2 were about athe purchase of a gun. This time about an expensive purchase of an I phone. I forwarded again to Palpal and phising icon in my email Some from before mentioned if they come from an gmail acct., be wary. All 3 were from gmail. accts.

[Shelbelle]

Forward them to Phishing@ PayPal, you know the rest, then delete them. 

[Ainhisg]

Just mark them as spam and occasionally delete your spam folder. No matter how many times you report them to PayPal, it will do little good, because the spammers just create new accounts.

[Tinkrbl44]

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@catter70 wrote:

This is the third email I've received for Paypal since late last week. I have no account or have never had a account with Paypal. Last 2 were about athe purchase of a gun. This time about an expensive purchase of an I phone. I forwarded again to Palpal and phising icon in my email Some from before mentioned if they come from an gmail acct., be wary. All 3 were from gmail. accts.

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@catter70   @Ainhisg 

You can correct the typos in your title and comments. 

It's PayPal, not Palpal.

Any time I receive a spam email using PayPal as the fake financial source, I forward the whole email to [email protected].

They go after these sites for financial fraud, and I feel like I'm helping them catch the "bad guys".  

[Kachina624]

I have and use a PayPal account and I don't get those emails.  Perhaps you need to open one?

[Shelbelle]

I was told by a PP rep not to use the Spoof email but send to Phishing email instead. 

[RespectLife]

I don't have an account either.

I never click on them so I have no idea what they are about.  You should never open or even click on them.  If you don't have an account, just immediately delete.

AOL is pretty good about sending them right to my spam folder.

I don't waste my time fwd to Paypal since they can't do a thing about it.

As mentioned, scammers just will find a new entry.

Paypal email scams are no different than the 90 million other spams I get....just like the ones for body parts I don't even have!

[gidgetgh]

I get those emails sometimes. Mine always say that I've successfully purchased bitcoin. I just delete them.