#Paypal whats an invoice full#

#Paypal whats an invoice full#

Victims may think they’re being proactive by calling PayPal/Target/Walmart support, but in reality they’ll be talking to a call-center full of scammers. This is where the main focus of the phishing scam is. If you suspect you didn’t initiate this purchase, or this payment was not made by you directly reach out to our customer support helpline (***) ***-**** To get you to dispute the invoiceīoth the email and invoice page both have a note suggesting that you call “customer support” if you don’t recognize this invoice. If they send out 100,000 of these emails and 10 people pay the invoice because they believe it’s real, that’s 6,000 dollars that took them little to no effort to obtain. You may be wondering, “who would ever pay a random $600 dollar invoice”, but this isn’t the main goal of the criminals, it’s just a potential upside for them.

The first, and most obvious one, is to get people to accidentally pay the invoice. There are two main objectives that this phishing email is trying to accomplish. (Credit for these images goes to krebsonsecurity) What’s the goal of the scam? This is from a different example where the invoice was regarding a “Walmart giftcard” instead of the “Target Premium Service”, but it shows the same screen regardless Since this is an legitimate email from PayPal, clicking any links will take you to their website, a you can test this yourself by hovering over the links before clicking them.īelow shows you where clicking the “View and Pay Invoice” button will take you. They appear to be charges coming from big names companies like Target, Walmart, or PayPal themselves.īelow is an example of one regarding an unpaid invoice for Target Premium Service. The invoices, which are real and were created on PayPal’s site, are often for random things such as giftcards or memberships. This email is coming from PayPal’s real email, so it won’t be flagged as spam like some spam/phishing emails automatically are. It starts by receiving an email from PayPal regarding an unpaid invoice. Most importantly, what do you need to do to protect yourself? What it looks like The confusing thing is, it’s also a real invoice sent from PayPal’s site.Īs far as phishing emails go, this one is pretty complex in the fact that there’s not a lot of obvious red flags, making it quite dangerous for unsuspecting individuals.

If you’ve received an email from PayPal asking you to pay an invoice for a transaction you do not recognize, it’s a scam.