Have You Seen This Invoice Scam on PayPal?
For much of my writing work, I have to use PayPal. While I use PayPal to collect payments, I don’t really receive invoices to send money out. So, when I received an email saying that I had two invoices due, I was alarmed.
Both invoices were nearly identical except for the Outlook email addresses they came from. They included a phone number, and you’ll notice the strange capitalization and grammar errors.
This is an obvious scam to me, but I can also see how somebody could become very confused seeing an invoice. It may not be as clear to others that there are two potential scams happening. Sure, you might pay the invoice, but more than likely the scammers expect you to call the phone number to report that you never signed up for “Our Services.” That’s another opportunity to pull a scam.
Googling this issue, I could see that many people didn’t realize that they could receive an invoice from just anybody. If somebody did not know what to do, it would be quite easy to accidentally send money over to these scam accounts. In fact, many people in the PayPal Community were frightened by the invoices and were uncertain about whether this was a scam.
