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Normandy Cow
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PayPal - You have a payment pending

Post by Normandy Cow »

This email confirms that Andrew Jackson has sent you 85.00 EUR with PayPal.

To complete this payment, you must accept or refuse it within 30 days by clicking here.

If you do not accept or refuse this payment within 30 days, it will be cancelled and the funds will be returned to Andrew Jackson's account.

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Payment Details
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Amount: 85.00 EUR

Transaction ID: 9D373306GD4453236

View the details of this transaction online

This payment is pending because it was sent in a currency in which you do not currently hold a balance.


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This looks genuine and appeared to have come from paypal but I didn't recognise the name or amount. I've just logged in separately to Paypal to check my account and unsurprisingly there are no funds pending, so I don't know what would have happened if I had clicked "here".

But if I had been recently doing a lot of business on Paypal, for example selling items on ebay, I may easily have been taken in.

Other Paypal users - Beware! :twisted:
Hells Bells
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Post by Hells Bells »

Genuine Paypal emails will address you personally. This is genuine wording though. I suggest you forward the mail to spoof@paypal.co.uk, they take these things seriously (or have done when I have contacted them in the past)
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