Current scams

Me too👍🏻, it’s not hard to spot the scams. PayPal use my code in contact but the scammers use-‘dear customer’ which translated means-‘I’m a scammer’👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻

That’s a shocker SB😱, I’ve been with PP for near 20 years & never had an issue. The hacking usually come from the hacked person being lax in their security, PP is super proactive re security-

I think it's fair to say that we're all vulnerable to fraud and security hacks and at this time of the year it's often worse.  Always best to check the URL (like the https at the top of this page) and make sure it matches the site you think you're dealing with plus the "lock" image is in use.) I nearly signed in to a fake bank page once, I just didn't check the URL web address properly. It was a very clever set up and I spotted it just in time.

We've had a lot more fake phone calls recently even though we're on a phone preference service etc. Action Fraud and Offcom are helpful but it doesn't seem to stop them does it?! 

I don't believe it today .email  Royal Mail failed parcel delivery last night 6 45 pm  . Amazon again Put phone down grrrr. Another call again your internet supplier going to cut you off for illegal use of internet. And got the rest of the day to go

We've had a lot more fake phone calls recently even though we're on a phone preference service etc. Action Fraud and Offcom are helpful but it doesn't seem to stop them does it?!

Im not sure how useful preference services are. The land line we have now just throws any numbers it does not recognise to answerphone. They don't often leave a message and it usually detects automated calls and rejects them. Occasionally we get a message left saying we need to sort out our prime subscription, which we don't have😂. On the mobile I just ignore anything that does not come up as a contact.

The Amazon Prime one is really annoying! 

Came across an unusual one recently.....folks get items delivered to their homes that they didn’t order or pay for. Turns out it’s scammers using cloned Amazon accounts they’ve created simply to provide a platform to create false reviews for their dodgy products.

We get a telephone call - almost daily - telling us we missed a call from our internet supplier.  We just put the handset down and leave it to run but we stopped answering the landline around the time these calls normally come in.

There’s one on BBC news website at moment......hoaxer looking for people to take part in “nude challenges” in return for cash. At least a couple of chaps have succumbed to the lure, hotel room, filming, wait to hear from us.............🤷‍♀️🙄 You couldn’t make it up honestly😂

I’ve only had the one problem and it was many years ago, didn’t put me off using them, like you account holder for 20+ years. However, I think there’s a weakness in the collaboration between Ebay and Paypal, if you’re not careful Ebay will automatically authorise payments on your Ebay account via PayPal. I can’t recall opting into that arrangement and turning it off requires a lot of research and persistence. I want to use 2 stage verification for all purchases and it keeps turning that option off.