Unfortunately, the email that Kathleen received was incredibly convincing. Of course, the real PayPal will never, ever ask to connect to your machine in order to login to your account to "check things over." Microsoft tech support scam this time, scammers in India are posing as PayPal agents. Something is definitely not right! Can you PLEASE help!? " I've also tried to access my credit cards online, but I keep getting an error in my web browser. I need to have the remote access removed from my machine as it's my life line.Īs an elderly lady, I can't get out and need to use this machine. I've already called the real PayPal and they reversed the charges, but now They also tried to open a credit card in my name!Įasy Net Experts, I am scared to death that the scammers still have access to my machine and all my financial information. In the last 24 hours, the scammers have tried to purchase $1800 Australian dollars worth of cosmetics from a website I've never heard of, and a $250 Home Depot gift card. I then realized that the phone number I called (displayed in the fake invoice email) wasn't the real PayPal, but At this point, I figured something wasn't right and so I hung up the phone. After that, they started asking questions about my bank and credit cards. From there, 'PayPal' connected to my machine and then had me login to my account. The people I spoke with had a very thick Indian accent. Flash forward to January 8, 2020, and I received another message stating that if I don't pay the original invoice ($399), I'm going to be charged an additional ' $500 late fee,' and subsequent 'fees' if I don't take immediate action. I have no recollection of this, so up until now I've kept deleting the emails, thinking they were sent in error. Here's how it happened: beginning some time in March, 2019, I received invoices from PayPal claiming that I paid for some kind of technical support for my computer. The Bethlehem Township woman knows it’s difficult for authorities to catch scammers, but she remains optimistic.I really need your help! I have been scammed by fake PayPal technical support. Then their card is hit with fraudulent charges. When they click the link to claim their prize, they are told to enter a credit card to pay for shipping.
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In another scam, people receive text messages saying they’ve won a raffle for a free product from Amazon. If they send money, as requested, they end up sending their own (very real) money.” Then, when people see a large deposit in their checking account, they think it’s the refund, but it’s all fake.
“They move money from one account to another - say, from savings to checking.
“To make their lies about refunding that so-called overpayment more believable, scammers have reportedly accessed people’s online banking,” the FTC says. In some, the Amazon impersonator tricks people into believing they have been refunded too much money, then asks them to pay back the difference. The FTC says there are variations of the fraud. The FTC, Better Business Bureau and AARP have issued warnings about these scams exploiting the Amazon brand.
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