An ongoing PayPal email scam exploits the platform's address settings to send fake purchase notifications, tricking users into granting remote access to scammers For the past month, BleepingComputer ...

PayPal users have been taking to Reddit in order to warn others of a particularly dangerous new attack campaign targeting users of the payment platform, which is, to say the least, very hard for ...

A recent PayPal email scam used real PayPal messages to show fake purchase details and a callback number. See how it worked.

About a month ago, I received a scam email that almost tricked me. It purported to be from PayPal, alerting me to an almost $1,000 charge that was “logged to a new profile.” The message implied that ...

PayPal users are being targeted by a sophisticated new email scam that is proving to be incredibly difficult to spot. This isn’t a typical phishing attack that leads you to a fake website; instead, ...

Another PayPal phishing scam is circulating, this time with email notifications about recurring or automatic payments. The messages originate from a legitimate PayPal address, allowing them to evade ...

Update, March 10, 2025: This story, originally published March 8, has been updated with in-depth mitigation advice from PayPal regarding attack attempts and tactics, as well as a recommendation that ...