Lucky enough to have a wife that questions about odd looking stuff on email. She has an iPad and got what appeared to be a receipt from PayPal for $150, the email had a prominent link along the lines of "if this is not correct click here".

I checked the PayPal account which showed no activity, so knew it was a scam. Opened her email account on the laptop which shows the email sender name (payPal address) and the ACTUAL email address ([email protected]).

Email deleted. No harm done.

With the high use of tablets and variety of email clients I thought this was worth sharing. Please beware.

any communication fro paypal will start with your full name, most (if not all) scams begin with "dear member"

same with bank/credit card etc frauds

paddymac said..
Lucky enough to have a wife that questions about odd looking stuff on email. .

I wish my wife wouldn't

You never actually need to read or respond to emails from bank or PayPal. Log in and read news or communication on their site.

Gmail has a really cool feature you can use, with a bit of practise, to stop this stuff dead in it's tracks.

support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en&visit_id=637202967559393707-895188494&rd=1

You can use +xxx with your gmail address.
So if I had [email protected] I could use:
[email protected] as my email address when dealing with tax office.
[email protected] for a post on seabreeze
etc.
and it all goes to [email protected]


This has a triple effect -
a/you can see at a glance if the incoming mail matches the address it should and
b/ if you start getting spam addressed to [email protected]
Then you know either mike's electrical has been hacked or they're dodgy buggers who've sold you onto a list and you can ask them which and
c/ you can set a rule to block anything incoming to that particular address and you're instantly off the list.

kiteboy dave said..

Gmail has a really cool feature you can use, with a bit of practise, to stop this stuff dead in it's tracks.

support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en&visit_id=637202967566275272-339563100&rd=1

You can use +xxx with your gmail address.
So if I had [email protected] I could use:
[email protected] as my email address when dealing with tax office.
[email protected] for a post on seabreeze
etc.
and it all goes to [email protected]


This has a triple effect -
a/you can see at a glance if the incoming mail matches the address it should and
b/ if you start getting spam addressed to [email protected]
Then you know either mike's electrical has been hacked or they're dodgy buggers who've sold you onto a list and you can ask them which and
c/ you can set a rule to block anything incoming to that particular address and you're instantly off the list.

Thanks, will have a closer look at that.