Re: [mailop] I received a scam letter from Paypal

2022-12-28 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
For someone already using billing automation it works that way, but think more in terms of a web designer with 5 clients, billing a client for a quick job. PayPal has a lot of functions for a lot of different use cases that could range from helping freelancers to large businesses. I'm not sure

Re: [mailop] I received a scam letter from Paypal

2022-12-28 Thread Slavko via mailop
Ahoj, Dňa Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:33:05 -0600 Jarland Donnell via mailop napísal: > It's a perfectly legitimate feature of PayPal that you can create an > invoice and send it to someone. Pretty much every invoice service > that exists allows similar. They just have a problem with malicious > users

Re: [mailop] I received a scam letter from Paypal

2022-12-28 Thread Richard W via mailop
I've seen a number of these. What helps me catch them is they are always to a scraped address, not my tagged address used with PP. Richard On 2022-12-28 12:14 p.m., Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop wrote: Hi everyone! If I recall correctly, there was already a discussion here on something simila

Re: [mailop] I received a scam letter from Paypal

2022-12-28 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 28.12.2022 o godz. 12:33:05 Jarland Donnell via mailop pisze: > It's a perfectly legitimate feature of PayPal that you can create an > invoice and send it to someone. Pretty much every invoice service > that exists allows similar. They just have a problem with malicious > users creating invoic

Re: [mailop] I received a scam letter from Paypal

2022-12-28 Thread Louis Laureys via mailop
This looks like it is an actual invoice reminder email coming from paypal. Like a fraudulent "seller" created an invoice with your email as the customer. So not really an email authentication issue, more of a platform issue. > The subject says, "You have paid an invoice", but the body says, "Ple

Re: [mailop] I received a scam letter from Paypal

2022-12-28 Thread Anne Mitchell via mailop
> What I'm saying here, is what the hell? How a scam can come from Paypal like > this? Simple, it uses Paypal's own invoicing system: https://www.theinternetpatrol.com/new-paypal-invoice-scam-emails-come-from-paypal-and-uses-actual-paypal-links/ Anne --- We provide the Good Senders email sen

Re: [mailop] I received a scam letter from Paypal

2022-12-28 Thread Mark Alley via mailop
A common scenario for these is that a legitimate PayPal account is compromised and then used to send out these invoices requests from the account, hence these requests/messages are sent via PayPal's email infrastructure to external recipients. The best course of action for remediation would be

Re: [mailop] [External] I received a scam letter from Paypal

2022-12-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail via mailop
We've seen quite a few of these.  They are abusing paypal's system, sending invoices, etc.  Agreed, it's a very good scam and leverages PayPal's real comms. -KAM On 12/28/2022 1:14 PM, Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop wrote: What I'm saying here, is what the hell? How a scam can come from Paypal li

Re: [mailop] I received a scam letter from Paypal

2022-12-28 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
It's a perfectly legitimate feature of PayPal that you can create an invoice and send it to someone. Pretty much every invoice service that exists allows similar. They just have a problem with malicious users creating invoices for people that don't owe them any money. On 2022-12-28 12:14, Cyri

Re: [mailop] I received a scam letter from Paypal

2022-12-28 Thread John Devine via mailop
I’m pretty sure I had one of those and it was like you say quite ‘real’ I had to log in to my PayPal account to check there had been no activity, how are they doing this? > On 28 Dec 2022, at 18:14, Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop > wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > If I recall correctly, there was al

[mailop] I received a scam letter from Paypal

2022-12-28 Thread Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop
Hi everyone! If I recall correctly, there was already a discussion here on something similar, but I'd like to share my story here. Yesterday, I received an email from Paypal with the subject "Reminder - You have paid an invoice". The content of the email is the following: [image: first.png] Th