Tell HN: New/Novel? Form of PayPal Phishing

5 pointsposted 3 days ago
by compsciphd

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4 Comments

jeromecasper

3 days ago

I just received the same email. It says it's a money request from Just World Books, LLC. for $399.99. Just another scam attempt.

compsciphd

3 days ago

yes. same. the novel thing (to me) is how they are doing it. It's not simply a scam sent to my paypal account. they are using forwarding and possibly linking an email out of your control to your account (and I'm then worried what that means, i.e. could they take over the account via password resets sent to that email address?)