Another PayPal phishing scam is circulating, this time with email notifications about recurring or automatic payments. The messages originate from a legitimate PayPal address, allowing them to bypass ...

About a month ago, I received a scam email that almost tricked me. It purported to be from PayPal, alerting me to an almost $1,000 charge that was “logged to a new profile.” The message implied that ...

Although PayPal allows you to use multiple email addresses with your account, your administrative PayPal email address is the primary email address associated with your account. Using your ...

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, BleepingComputer ...

PayPal users have been taking to Reddit in order to warn others of a particularly dangerous new attack campaign targeting users of the payment platform, which is, to say the least, very hard for ...

A clever new email phishing scam can hijack a victim's PayPal account. The email requesting money uses a legitimate sender email address from "[email protected]" and a link to PayPal's real website, ...

There’s a new PayPal phishing scam making the rounds, and it’s so convincing that even security-conscious users are getting caught in it. Unlike typical scams riddled with typos and fake domains, this ...

You can usually spot scam emails through the sender information—not who’s listed in the From field, but what the message actually says. A legitimate email originates from servers tied to the site’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Updated December 16 with a statement from PayPal, as well as ...