Paypal Money Request Scam

[Mustang]

Had some strange activity in my PayPal

account from someone who i don't 

know.

Basically i think it was a scam,

a money request  for a large sum

of money buying crypto,obviously 

all nonsense.They gave a number to phone if you don't recognise the 

payment,if you phone they will

try and get your details.

Cancelled the PayPal request,

they will get a cancel notification.

 

Don't know if this is related to what

is happening here,certainly looks

like it is.They will try anything,

absolute scumbags,could be 

one or a team.

 

KTF

[Damian]

Just now, Mustang said:

 

a money request  for a large sum

 

Had same thing recently, panicked at first until I realized it was only a request and not an actual transaction - just went in and canceled it, like you did - several days passed since and no consequence. 

[Mustang]

They want you to panic and hit the wrong

button,the scumbags will try it all,

thankfully you cancelled.

I think it stems from here,do you mate?.

 

[Damian]

Just now, Mustang said:

They want you to panic and hit the wrong

button,

 

Yup, that's my take on it as well. Or be clueless enough to call and be scammed further. 

In my case it happened sometime last weekend so this hadn't happened yet - I think it was just a random try and not related. 

[Mike]

24 minutes ago, Mustang said:

They want you to panic and hit the wrong

button,the scumbags will try it all,

thankfully you cancelled.

I think it stems from here, do you mate?.

 

I'd say can't be connected to Nathan Davis scam as your one involves phones set up etc etc

The Nathan Davis matter was as far as aware one geezer pm-ing members in reply to posted wants, so far one person is out of pocket

So say not really a large scale fraud setup as per your case

Plus who ever is doing your scam would need your paypal email

Is it out in the public world?

 

 

[Mike]

ok to avoid any confusion/mis-understandings  will shortly split off the paypal request scam posts to a separate topic in freebasing as non-related

now done

[Mustang]

No not generally,normally quite

careful with e-mail address.

My understanding around data

is that it can get sold etc:,so

criminals can try and scam people

even though they don't know the

person directly,it is done randomly,

they never know your name.

Not on the social media platforms,

so a bit of a mystery.

[Mustang]

I have checked information regarding 

these fake payment request scams

from PayPal.

There are explanations on the Glasgow

and Derbyshire Police websites.

The scammers exploit a function on

the money request.They can set up

a false PayPal account and request

payments from other user accounts

randomly,they don't need your e-mail

address to do this.

They can also place a note in the

request including the fake phone

number,if you do ring the number

they try to pressurise the victim

to pay money.

 

KTF

[Mustang]

Had my detective head on for a while now.

This is for our Moderator team.

 

I believe there is a strong link with this

Nathan Evans character to the PayPal

request scam,i have not had a request

before the pattern of contact to members

on our website.

I think it is possibly a team of criminals,

they are studying members profiles to work out who is using PayPal,that is why they are doing dodgy deals with false records to find out who is using PayPal with Family and Friends.

Then they try and steal members money with the record deal and in the background attempt a PayPal money request to try and steal more money from other members.

I have explained the findings on the PayPal money request scam from Police websites.

I believe they are using members messaging trail on the profiles to work out who is using PayPal and would recommend to our moderators that they hide the messages in the future.

I also think that they are probably using a VPN system to try and knock investigators off the ip trail.

There is a definite link between the two scams,it is clearly obvious.

 

Hope this helps folks.

 

KTF.

[Mike]

16 minutes ago, Mustang said:

Had my detective head on for a while now.

This is for our Moderator team.

 

I believe there is a strong link with this

Nathan Evans character to the PayPal

request scam,i have not had a request

before the pattern of contact to members

on our website.

I think it is possibly a team of criminals,

they are studying members profiles to work out who is using PayPal,that is why they are doing dodgy deals with false records to find out who is using PayPal with Family and Friends.

Then they try and steal members money with the record deal and in the background attempt a PayPal money request to try and steal more money from other members.

I have explained the findings on the PayPal money request scam from Police websites.

I believe they are using members messaging trail on the profiles to work out who is using PayPal and would recommend to our moderators that they hide the messages in the future.

I also think that they are probably using a VPN system to try and knock investigators off the ip trail.

There is a definite link between the two scams,it is clearly obvious.

 

Hope this helps folks.

 

KTF.

thanks for your thoughts

have just posted a topic on the nathandavis matter with details

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/435027-sales-alert-nathanevans-details-pm-selling/

have to say strongly disagree with you assumption that there is a 'definite link' with your own paypal scam experience involving 'teams of criminals ' and a guy sending pms on here

given the nature of your posts maybe best to send thoughts to the moderation team direct via pm as discussing such security measures and recommendations in public can actually affect measures already in place

regards

 

 

[Mustang]

2 hours ago, Source said:

thanks for your thoughts

have just posted a topic on the nathandavis matter with details

have to say strongly disagree with you assumption that there is a 'definite link' with your own paypal scam experience and a guy sending pms on here

given the nature of your posts maybe best to send thoughts to the moderation team direct via pm as discussing such security measures and recommendations in public can actually affect measures in place

regards

 

 

 Okay,just trying to help.