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Phishing Scam Example

PayPal Email Reimbursement Phishing Scam

The scammer organization sends a fraudulent email which looks like an official Paypal email, labeled as coming from "service@paypal.com" with subject "Urgent: Steps needed For your recent Payment." The email alleges to inform the victim that their PayPal account has an unauthorized payment from Randy's Greenhouse LLC (in future cases, may be another company name), and has the victim call a customer service phone number specified in the email. (In one case this was 802-532-7749.) DO NOT CALL THIS PHONE NUMBER. IT IS NOT PAYPAL. IT IS THE FRAUDULENT PHONE NUMBER OF THE SCAMMER.

The scammer, (in one case calling himself Jack Moorie), attempts to fool the victim into a reimbursement scam: to believe that PayPal had withdrawn $1400 from their bank account, and then says that Paypal was going to reimburse the $1400 in two $700 increments, and then asks the victim to install the computer interconnect program anydesk and allow connection to the victim's computer to process the reimbursement. (This is a RED FLAG that it is a scammer!). The scammer then asks the victim to log in their bank account while they are connected, and the scammer subsequently posts fraudulent images of the bank account balance statement. He then says that PayPal has overpaid the reimbursement and that the victim must repay PayPal for the overpayment. Meanwhile, the scammer has obtained complete access to the victim's computer and bank account, and then uses various schemes to withdraw thousands of dollars from it.

Please Note: Real PayPal customer service NEVER connects to a customer's computer using anydesk or any other interconnect mechanism.

Reporting:

At this time the scammer's identity has not yet been discovered. At best right now you can report the scam by forwarding the fraudulent email to the Anti-Scammer Alliance at anti-scammer-services@outlook.com. If you were in contact with the scammer, please include your phone number so that they can report the fraud. If the scammer accessed your bank account, call your bank as soon as possible. The bank may (by policy, and probably will, by law) be required to close your bank account(s) that were accessed and transfer your funds to new bank accounts, and you will be required to change all of your automatic payments and withdrawals, etc., and to delete any network interconnection programs (e.g. anydesk) and scan your computer with a commercial anti-virus program (I recommend Norton Anti-Virus) and provide a copy of the certification that your computer has been scanned and cleared of viruses.

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