Paypal customers in danger after consumer advice centre issues warning

Today's digital age offers fraudsters even more opportunities to obtain other people's sensitive data and thus cheat them out of their money, for example, via fraudulent emails. The problem is, however, that fraudulent e-mails are not always recognisable as such.

Such messages are so-called phishing mails, which are sent under the guise of the name of a well-known company. As the magazine watson reports, the consumer advice center is currently warning of a new scam involving customers of the online payment service provider Paypal.

Warning of 'suspicious activities'

According to the consumer centre, an email is currently circulating that informs Paypal customers that their account has been restricted. Accordingly, the bank linked to the Paypal account is said to have noticed 'suspicious activity'. For this reason, sending and withdrawing money is to be temporarily suspended.

For further use of the account, it is necessary to log into one's Paypal account and perform a series of 'required tasks'. The lack of a formal greeting and the incorrect sender address indicate that this is a phishing e-mail, as watson explains with reference to information from the consumer advice centre.

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Not the first fraud attempt

A similar mail is said to have circulated last week. In it, the fraudsters also warned of 'suspicious activities' and threatened to restrict the use of the account.

According to the consumer advice centre, in both cases the request to check important data also points to a scam, which is why users should immediately move this mail to the spam folder without opening it.

This article has been translated from Gentside DE.

Source used:

watson: 'Paypal: Verbraucherzentrale warnt vor perfider Betrugsmasche'