> On Jan 29, 2025, at 9:23 AM, Alan via users <users@spamassassin.apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> As far as I can tell, they're valid notifications from PayPal, and probably
> useful for legitimate purposes. What the messages are doing is attempting to
> trigger sufficient anxiety that the recipient calls the phone number in the
> message, which connects them to a scammer. It will get worse, and then
> hopefully the folks at PayPal will find a way to eliminate it (they could
> refuse to send a phone number in the message, for example).
One thing I have noted that they all have in common (so far at least) is that
the 1 prefix of the phone number is actually an uppercase i (so "I" not "1"),
so that spam filters can identify the scams by filtering on "Call-I("
Anne
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