Pay close attention to all of the details and do not make decisions in a hurry. Most of these messages have plenty of red flags: absurdly generous winnings or compensation, grammatical errors, a sender’s address that seems more appropriate for a robot than a living person, and so on. How to avoid this scam: Do not transfer money or disclose information about yourself to strangers. Of course, the message sender disappears upon payment, and any personal data disclosed ends up in a database and perhaps sold on the dark web. The options are limitless, but whatever the story, the victim has to make a small advance payment (in this case, using PayPal), and maybe fill out a form with personal data, to receive the money. Victims receive notifications that they are owed a certain amount of money - could be an inheritance, winning the lottery, or some other compensation. It’s not unusual for online scammers to use so-called advance payment fraud, a classic Internet scam, to defraud PayPal users. Today we’re sharing some of fraudsters’ most popular schemes.
You know how to use PayPal safely, but every day, scammers come up with new tricks to gain access to users’ accounts and empty their pockets digitally.
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