PayPal Phishing Scams are Getting Worse

[@GenericUsernameYay]

This actually happened to me last week. I’m pretty aware of scams and I was mostly sure it was fake but the fact it came from an official PayPal email worried me enough to spend 20 mins to investigate. I thought someone possibly hacked my account. They even embed a fake PayPal support phone number in the message. Luckily I picked up on that and called the official support where they told me there was no activity on my account. Probably tricked a good amount of people. Very clever.

[@thechugg4372]

Remember most official emails can be used to send scams.

[@Reth_Hard]

That's actually scary but I'm 100% protected cuz I have absolutely no money to send :D Oh wait... :(

[@mrcvry]

@@thechugg4372 Many companies sign their emails cryptographically. Paypal certainly does that. It looks like you are using a cheap mail provider that does not verify the signature. There are mail providers that care about your security. Proton, Mailbox, Tutanota....

[@lucasteganox9049]

@@mrcvry i didn't know that, really cool :)

[@zer0conf]

This is PayPal's fault

[@MidWitPride]

Winning move is to just ignore any mystery internet bills you aren't sure of. If the one sending the bill is legit, you will eventually actually get a paper bill sent to you. No one's life is getting financially ruined over some missed email. Before any legal action begins against you, there for sure will be tons of attempts to make you aware of it going on.

[@MidWitPride]

That being said, even paper bills could be scams if the scammer knows enough about you. But the same applies here. That unpaid bill wont fuck you over until the one billing you sends it for the government to collect, which scammers obviously wont do, as that would raise awkward questions. If the wheels of government bureaucracy start moving, you will for sure be made aware of it, giving you time to just pay it off.

[@MidWitPride]

Anyway, don't get your financial legal advice from YT comments, kids.

[@thexg0d833]

No government entity will just constant you throw email and any billing company will call you before the deadline so I instantly found it suspicious it was in English and I do not use English and it didn't say my name it was good I can't lie I'm an IT engineer I was confused with it how it was PayPal and everything was correct but it was not, image if they didn't go numbers game and went one by one by names, not even IT individuals would have suspected it as spam coming from PayPal but of most of us will have to question it but not all, ironically I don't use PayPal so suck on that scammers

[@inparis5724]

thanks for the financial legal advice

[@parafitality2730]

@@MidWitPride thanks for the financial / legal advice

[@SelectKiko]

The trick is that i never pay any of my invoices

[@internallyinteral]

CREDIT CARD COMPANIES HATE THIS ONE TRICK!

[@marcogenovesi8570]

this is what we call "pro gamer move"

[@jboblk]

Exactly, it's not like anything from PayPal will go to collections. Idaf

[@weene875]

we do a mild trickery in this game of tomfoolery

[@Ralphunreal]

lol

[@baggier]

PayPal when I'm trying to pay my friend 10 dollars: *sir we cannot let this pass out security check* Paypal watching an old lady transfer 60,000 dollars to an account made 2 days ago: *I will allow it*

[@HaveanOreshnik]

Meanwhile: *drug lord transferring $100,000* Paypal: pretend we don't see that

[@luizcastro5246]

yeah, using persian on your transaction description is enough to get blocked XD

[@nousquest]

Paypal when I withdraw $100 to my bank: You're account suspend permanent we keeping money thx

[@baggier]

@@luizcastro5246 واقعیت محض

[@lukemorgan6166]

Old people have had years to learn there's scammers everywhere. Screw em

[@OcteractSG]

The best solution is to have your life together at least enough to know who you do and don’t owe money to. Then, when the scam email comes in, you know you don’t owe a damn to whoever is invoicing you.

[@conradolipor7780]

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it became less and more strength whether am afraid. Thanks a lot sir I will keep recommending you everywhere.

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[@yggdrasilburnes]

Man, I have to wonder... These people are getting better and better at scamming people out of thousands. Meanwhile, there is zero resistance from investigative forces, too busy hunting wrongthink. I have to wonder if I'm in the wrong business these days.

[@AcidiFy574]

They're in on it

[@Mr.Bimgus]

Problem is a lot of them are in India or other places where the glowies can't easily prosecute the scammers. They know about it, but they can't exactly put boots on the ground to make the arrest, and India isn't going to do shit unless if forced to.

[@TheGunmanChannel]

I loved the little rap at the end 🤣😂

[@hornattila]

if i ever get something like this i would not pay because if i dont know why i owe someone money im not paying until police are on my door

[@rakeau]

After a bad experience trying to get my money back from Paypal after a ebay sale gone wrong, I prefer to just avoid Paypal as much as possible anyways. Back then they took a “the customer is always right” approach, and Paypal should be very liable in this case, but somehow, just somehow I suspect they’re just not going to be all that helpful to anyone that does get ripped off.

[@thechugg4372]

My friend tried to paypal me 20 dollars. Its been 2 months now.

[@theduplicator3270]

I had a gig that paid via PayPal. I couldn't transfer funds to my bank. The only thing I could buy with it was starbucks. I was wired every single day all day for at least a month.

[@theduplicator3270]

@@thechugg4372 It's always $20

[@swiftsilver]

I run an ebay page, you literally cannot decline refund requests. They can send you a package filled with dogshit in the mail and there is nothing you can do. They get your money no matter what. It fucking sucks for legitimate buisnesses like myself

[@QuantumConundrum]

How could Paypal be held liable? Paypal has no real way of distinguishing a real company/freelance/person since the impersonation is outside of it's platform. It's like sending a letter to someone asking for a cheque and they actually do it and send it back... the postal service is just an agnostic middleman. If Paypal were to be liable and actually do something about this they would, at minimum, need to collect a lot of personal info I'd rather not hand over.

[@georgiafrancis9059]

Yep, just happened to me today! They wanted my banking info and I wouldn't give it. They actually ended by hanging up on ME!!!!! They were rude, nasty, and had Chinese accents.

[@伖]

i tell my old parents grandpa grandma etc, about these so they dont get scammed thank you so much!!

[@_pilpil]

I got an email like this the other day. The only reason I knew it was a scam is because I don't even have PayPal and they didn't address me by my name. And the "person" that "sent me money" had a VERY generic name.

[@RealNovgorod]

So we're back in the 90s where scammers send you random invoices for stuff you didn't buy?

[@anonyt1337]

Was this a thing in the past ?

[@RealNovgorod]

@@anonyt1337 Sending random invoices to people in the hope that they just pay even if they don't remember what it's for? Yeah, that's how boomers used to get scammed before there was internet and now it went full circle.

[@slimeinabox]

I know this is 10 months old but it happened to me the other day and i almost gave them complete control over my phone. Thank fuck i knew about scammers before hand.

[@akassassin07]

Thank You Very Much For All You Do Here Man! Appreciate What Ya Do Here! Very Very Much! I Feel So Bad For All The Elderly Folks That Have This Crap Done To Them By These Spineless Chumps! The Damn Thought Of All The People This Happens To Everyday Just Sickens Me Horribly! Keep On Doing What Your Doing *Glincyber on the internet team* ! You Deserve Some Sort Of A Huge Reward From The Government For Doing This At The Very Very Least!

[@Reavenk]

This is going to be a pedantic nitpick, but you don't _eat_ mom's spaghetti. You _vomit-on-your-sweater-already_ mom's spaghetti.

[@Tall_Order]

How the f would they be able to do this through the actual paypal website? You'd think paypal would have that prevented decades ago.

[@nejaziB]

this company called the IRS keeps doing the same thing

[@somethingoranother9438]

FINALLY someone acknowledges this! This happened to me a couple years ago. It pretended to be from PayPal and talked about how I needed to pay $5 to lift the limit on my account. Ironically, when I logged in, my account TRULY WAS limited because I hadn't checked the account or the email associated with it for a bit so I was "past due" on the invoice payment or whatever. I didn't click anything in the email, but when I logged in and saw there really was a problem, I panicked, I payed it. I did try to stay cool but no one was replying to me at that hour so the urgency got to me. After, I got tipped off when the way it was listed in my bank transaction was written a bit weird. I never found a way to cancel the invoice, and disputing it later resulted in PayPal finding nothing wrong. I froze my linked credit card and I almost did a chargeback through my bank, but knowing how banhammery PayPal is, I knew I'd probably lose my account so I just ate my loss. I'm lucky it was just $5, but it's scary that anyone can just limit your account or slurp money from you because, for some reason, you can't cancel invoices that are randomly sent to you. Edit, Upon watching again this again I may actually still be all alone in the type of scam I experienced, lmao. Mine wasn't from links, it was just a legit invoice from a nonlegit entity that I was forced to pay because paypal is easily exploitable.

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[@PakoTheNinja]

I actually got one of these emails a couple weeks ago, but they claimed to be McAfee so I instantly ignored it lol

[@chotabomjvonychi3485]

Dead man's switch ignored

[@valghyna7668]

I got that one too.

[@BloodyMobile]

Not sure what I'm more disappointed by, the scammers getting better or PayPal not giving a shit when their system gets abused in their favor (fees)...

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[@tamilkumar819]

Can’t believe this is legit I got some PayPal funds with no scam

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[@MrWhipple42]

Thanks for this video. It was short enough and simple enough that I can share it with my 90-year-old father and even HE will understand it.

[@awesomeferret]

"Even he". Ageism, the last socially acceptable ism. SMH

[@MrWhipple42]

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[@diavolo5997]

I actually got a fake paypal email years ago. Thankfully it was just a link to a youtube video. This is inexcusable that companies are getting hacked this often

[@GazMatic]

I always ignore bills and flag them as phishing. I don’t use PayPal often so until I do, I flag all as scams

[@aland7236]

Been getting calls and emails about an iPhone (lul) that "I bought". I ignore the emails and when I get them on the phone I ask them about my Best Buy Geek Squad refund after they explain the iPhone stuff. They hang up too quickly.

[@dannydogs4385]

The obvious answer to this is to just never click on buttons in an email. If it is important, just go to the website manually on your browser and check what is going on. Though understandably there are a lot of people that just click on the links because convenience.

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[@joserodriguez537]

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[@renabaker7432]

"Palms sweaty, eating moms spaghetti!!"... love it

[@ColinTheShark]

I actually heard someone mention getting an invoice from somewhere and weren't sure what it was, they never ordered anything recently. Now this video comes up, and I immediately linked it to them. I hope it was just a scam attempt and they didn't actually pay anything. Thanks for covering this!

[@Erebus-PCFX]

Almost got by one. It was in French and about a due payment for a VPN subscription. Immediately jumped to the PayPal website and verified it was fake, but a good scare!

[@j0elxb]

have you seen these new email scams too where they act like a shipping company (DHL, UPS, etc) and send you the worst fake "Package delivered" email you'll ever see they arent even putting in effort anymore just sending out alot more with alot less effort hoping someone is stupid enough to click on the link and login to DHL/UPS,ETC

[@NickyDelvalle]

Thank you for being you! If I had your skills, I would so be there. *Glincyber on the internet subs* , I'm just a retired mechanic. What I do is advise & help people when I can. My business has a lot of sketchy folks that rip people off. I help people when I can (I've only got one good arm now) and tell people when shops are trying to take them for a ride. It ain't nothing like what you do, but it makes me feel good. Keep up the good work!!!!

[@dbolger]

Why would someone accept a bill? If I see an invoice show up that isn’t something I ordered, why would I click it?

[@RaidenKaiser]

If only we could teach people to stop falling for this crap then we wouldn't have to deal with it on this scale, unfortunately if that worked alot of things in this world never would of gotten this bad.

[@lolwtnick4362]

*a lot

[@FLEABONE]

I know this is old bit I just wanted to say these bastards prey on the vunerable. I have had to close my parents bank account all their credit cards and 2 years later my dad falls for the PayPal unauthorized charges. I have told him again and again but he is 78 and he has some cognitive decline. I am searching for ransomeware right now. Luckily I pulled the power on his router and got into task manager but not before the little shit made both monitors go all blue and said "Get a new computer bitch!"

[@vs2256]

I just got a SCAM FROM PAY PAL! They said we have $300.,for you! Liars! They are trying really hard to steal!

[@michaeldporcelli]

I got one of these a couple years ago, it was obvious once I looked up the invoice on PayPal and the name was in Cyrillic. Don't worry, ill still see my Linux ISOs for you comrades.

[@redslashed]

Hi i love that you make daily videos thank you so much keep it up please

[@SianWinstanley]

Commenting for the algo, great content my dude

[@thrusteavis]

Aerial Fishing thumbnail?!? So based

[@apfelfreund6859]

This is also a reason why I always go another extra step to login first to PayPal before aby bills from PP I get via e-mail

[@lightyagami1752]

My first response would be to call the legit Paypal customer support hotline. But having dealt with them a few times, I'd almost rather deal with the scammers.😄

[@snuffoutrouge5109]

They are at it again. In Australia sms the old paypal refund scam - A$1499 sent to R.G.V. with a 2019 date for this mystery transaction LOL

[@wChris_]

Never call a number you got from a suspicious mail, always go to the website and get the number that way!

[@Someone-bf8ru]

"Your palms get sweaty, you start eating mom's spaghetti" 😂😂

[@patrickcpe]

I’ve gotten about 5 of these throughout the last year and a half. The first one actually had me rather worried until I figured it out

[@nophone9311]

Do people actually click links in their emails to pay for shit? I just open a browser and then log in.

[@DaEpic]

worst payment method

[@RoastCDuck]

How do they make Paypal do stuff if they aren't inside Paypal's servers to make anything happen?

[@somethingoranother9438]

All they need to do is make a convincing name and message and send you an invoice, which anyone can do. The email that notifies you comes from paypal. No servers required. Or at least, I think. I may be misunderstanding this type of scam that he was explaining and I was basing it off the scam I experienced.

[@RoastCDuck]

@@somethingoranother9438 If anything sent through paypal has the paypal adress then surely that's how. They sure could add an official seal to their stuff that only Paypal admins and staff can that would fix it.

[@Saturate0806]

there should be a web site extension that scans phone numbers agains a scam database

[@Nipah.Auauau]

I got one of these claiming I owed about $600 for a smart phone I "bought". I never use Paypal's shitty anti-user service and don't have any money on it so I just ignored it.

[@austinreed7343]

I managed to fill out everything except the social security number, and they rejected it. So was I successfully caught?

[@kyrianalutu5050]

I've actually seen a lot of companies email addresses being mimicked this way but I've never really figured out how they do it because it can allow scammers out there to simply gather information on non-financial websites as well

[@timdougall5415]

Thank you for sharing this 👍🏽👍🏽

[@anon_y_mousse]

The thing I want to know is what is that game you're playing in the video? You don't say, it's not in the description, and the only text I saw comes up with bupkis on a search.

[@DavidRockin1]

I keep getting annoying scam emails like these, and my email is full of annoying crypto scams. At this point, I just wanna leave the internet and go off grid. It's just so annoying how these assholes keep getting through, and yet when I try to create a legitimate email server, it takes a tremendous amount of effort.

[@malcomgreen4747]

I got this 2 months ago and i called PayPal support telling them its a scamim a programmer and i alomost fallen to it because the pay button is ready just click it mistakenly and your money is gone, i told them to give me the option to delete it that invoice or delete it and they never did so i emptied my account and im planning to close my PayPal account

[@thomasschwarting5108]

My question is why would ANYBODY use a 3rd party like PayPal to pay ANYBODY ANYTHING? Unless I can pay for something DIRECTLY, I'm not going that route! PLUS, PayPal wants YOU to pay THEM a monthly fee for the PRIVILEGE of having THEM make a payment FOR YOU! How in the world does that make ANY SENSE AT ALL!

[@50_Pence]

how do they get the money out? if one single person complains, then their own account will be suspended

[@brentarmurderfloof9858]

Its pretty easy, if you click the "pay now" link and it brings you to what looks like paypal, but lastpass isn't able to autofill for you, then its a scam and you need to leave that website immediately.

[@stalkerfromvoronezh4493]

In school we create fake Google email to improve our marks. It's be an COVID-19 time.

[@bezbos]

I don't understand how are they sending fake emails from paypal's domain name? Paypal has properly setup SPF, DMARC and DKIM on their email server (I've checked) so how is this possible?

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[@Chrissy22]

I've been getting phishing scams all week on all my social accounts but in different ways not this scam exactly

[@user-vn9ld2ce1s]

This is quite strange. How are they able to create that website?

[@scambaitnaansense512]

They are using everything now like PayPal, QuickBooks, Amazon, Facebook and even KZbin is disgusting

[@baileyknapp7292]

*I am so glad he didn't disappoint me after I explained my order and the situation I was facing ,glad he raised me 30k dollars for just the little I paid for software. Am from New York 🇺🇸.*

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[@Foche_T._Schitt]

Sometimes I click on them just to enter fake login information.

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[@the_cyberchill]

Oh fuck I got this in my inbox and assumed it was spam because it wasn't in the email i use paypal with and because such a charge would of been noticed by my mom who's my ssi payee, glad i binned it.

[@AshnSilvercorp]

So are these the dumb email texts I keep getting that for some odd reason, I can't block?

[@stage6fan475]

Thanks for keeping us up to date on this [insert expletive].

[@14zrobot]

If you want to give people advice on it, I would advise not to click any links in the email. Got an email from Paypal to pay something; just open the Paypal site. It is barely an inconvenience but helps to avoid a lot. I even got my email client configured to remove hyperlinks, so I cannot get accidentally stupid

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[@donettaluna3804]

You know I hear everyone saying well it’s obvious come on???!! Well here is the problem I do hospice and the lady’s and gentleman that I take care of are dying so they don’t want to leave family with anything that needs to be taken care of and they are elderly so this is all new to them! It saddens me that people are so cruel and think it’s okay to tell ppl “well duh” please understand that maybe you think it’s obvious but not everyone does so I my self an grateful when someone takes the time to educate me or my clients on phishing scams!! Thank you thank you

[@Slippindisc]

Can you do a video on why search engine results aren’t good anymore/ what happens to stuff that gets memoryholed?

[@ginkumpow3726]

Paypal email: "We're unable to verify your bank acct"

[@anonyt1337]

"Payment Error ! You're transaction cannot be processed"

[@howiedewin3688]

Hi this is Steve Case, here at AOL we've had a hard drive crash and your billing information was lost. To ensure your membership is not interrupted, please resubmit it here.

[@DeuxisWasTaken]

Wait, but how? How do they make paypal send an email with phishing data, or impersonate it to that degree? Is it not known yet?

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[@red_light_3937]

Basically never open an email about a bill, invoice, or payment statement ever again. Always log on with your own link in your web browser into said account & check from there. And save numbers/emails for customer support in account set up or directly from your log in.

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[@YezzyHD]

They sent me one that asked for a large sum of money for inactivity

[@ASTR690]

I sold a PS5 and I had to pay business fee for $500 and another fee for whatever fee it was for another $500 and no I have to pay $300 for a Vat fee and I'll get around $2,350 back. I never gotten these emails or invoice. Mines was way different. It still looks legit but I'm promised more money for paying fee of the package and the product.

[@midimusicforever]

Clever trick, I gotta give them.

[@JonathanSteadman2003]

Due to increasing bills. This will start to happen more. :(

[@awesomeferret]

Why? Why would a higher cost bill increase the frequency of them?

[@Theabstractblu]

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[@gregheth]

Thank you !!

[@theredstormer8078]

My account got restricted somehow recently but I'm not sure if it had anything to do with this. Luckily no harm was done since I didn't have a card added and since I couldn't figure it out I just made a new account.

[@ekksoku]

Usually I go check whatever website separately and if there's nothing on the interface about something owed, it's obviously a scam.

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[@wouldbabyhitlerkillyou4217]

I got 2 of these very emails (literally just today and yesterday) and I must say I was almost convinced of its legitimacy (but then I realized the phone # was fake and the English wasn't too great and wording not very professional, so I didn't even bother investigating any further). I usually examine the "from" field very well however and it appeared 100% legit (I didn't look into the "raw" email contents however). I examine the full, actual urls of links before clicking them as well of course (right-click then "Copy Link"). I use Apple mail and have also turned off automatic loading of images/external resources in the settings. Edit: oh wow it is a legitimate PayPal email so there you go

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

From what I understand, you can spoof emails decently easy. I've had scam emails sent to me from "me" before on several accounts. Usually Microsoft accounts.

[@0007-i2l]

Don't check the "from" check all email headers... the fom can be easily spoofed and unfortunately still many mail povider fail to detect it as spam... But in this scenario it wouldnt safe you either. You just got to know where you have to pay what..

[@hehe42069-k]

lol "wording not professional" reminder that all these big corpos started talking in "young people speak" years ago, they all have the same really unprofessional wording and sentence structure in emails and website UI these days.

[@Escalusfr]

- You owe me money - Source? - My source is that I made it the fuck up

[@Czeckie]

but how does it work? How are they able to do this?

[@MrElmostudios]

I got that same email as well. But thankfully I reported it as spam

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[@fosres]

Great vid, Mental Outlaw. Phishing is such a pain. Wish they would add support for U2F to down that down.

[@DivineLight661]

Oh no, they'll be 2 ticking into our banks

[@2010ngojo]

Either log into PayPal from a separate browser, or use the app. If you don't see any bill due, don't worry about it. Or use some bs login credentials a few times. If they let you log in, then it's a scam.

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[@SearedBite]

2:42 bruh what kind of wacky p server is this

[@aureliogutierrez9195]

Where do these scams come from (country)?

[@entity37]

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[@Spikelain]

seen that osrs clip, you play?

[@Brina_stubbs]

Thank you for informing me of how to avoid this

[@xdarkv9057]

Long story I got scam by giving da scammer Bitcoin n I have tax report what should I do need help ??

[@AgamemnonTWC]

I've had one of these that actually did use my name, about two months ago. Looked completely legit. I've never heard of the company that did the invoice, so I canceled it. PayPal's invoice canceling is an absolute mess, btw. You can eventually do it, but only from the desktop site, and it's very difficult to figure out how to. I can't remember and I've done it once.

[@ejonesss]

"seller note to customer" that should be a sign of something wrong because halfway decent companies who care about their customers would never use such generic ways to talk to their customers they will use your name or what ever your account is registered to. @mental outlaw can you please tell us is the scammers leveraging the paypal's api to generate the invoices the same way that a vendor does when you buy something by embedding the paypal payment into the site?