A New Canaan small business and PayPal was impersonated in a phishing email scam, the Better Business Bureau says.

Clever trickery allows scammers to manipulate official PayPal emails, in the hope of gaining remote access to your PC.

While I’m always on the lookout for the latest scams, I didn’t have to look far for this one–it landed right in my inbox. At ...

An ongoing PayPal email scam exploits the platform's address settings to send fake purchase notifications, tricking users into granting remote access to scammers For the past month ...

New phishing technique discovered abusing PayPal The attack uses a feature recently added to the payments platform The goal is to get victims to install remote desktop access software A sophisticated ...

The phishing emails are being sent from [email protected], which makes them seem real—but as Bleeping Computer reports, scammers have managed to exploit PayPal settings in order to trick recipients.

Researchers from BleepingComputer who, themselves, received one such phishing email, and decided to investigate further. The victims would get an email directly from “[email protected] ...

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But if PayPal’s recently notified you of a new address added to your account, proceed with caution. The sender will check out, but the email likely contains a phishing attempt. As investigated ...