topic Re: click the link to accept payment in Selling

click the link to accept payment

shizam123 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:26:18 GMT

I got a payment notification for a BIN but it didn't come from paypal but from the buyers email ...and there is no payment pending in my paypalis.... this legit?

This email confirms that you’ve nominated PayPal to receive an instant purchase payment

This payment was sent through PayPal - the safer, easier way to get paid online

Once you accept your payment on PayPal, you can withdraw the money or use it in many different ways.

Simply click the link below to accept payment

Re: click the link to accept payment

oldworldlady — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:33:54 GMT

I would say NO!

Re: click the link to accept payment

lyndal1838 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 01:41:33 GMT

Never, never click on a link in an email. Go directly to your paypal account to see if there is a pending payment.

Re: click the link to accept payment

shizam123 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:28:39 GMT

there is no payment pending in my paypal account and when I click on 'view paypal transaction' it says

'The Transaction ID in your link is invalid'

do I report this?

Re: click the link to accept payment

lyndal1838 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:46:04 GMT

There is no point in reporting it to ebay or paypal if it did not supposedly come from either of them.

Do you have a buyer who might have sent the email?

Re: click the link to accept payment

beautbots01 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:36:45 GMT

Do not click the link, but I would ring Paypal and ask them to investigate. Also sometimes when payment has been sent to an incorrect paypal address the "Invalid id" comes up.

Did you actually have a legit BIN sale?

And don't forget Friday is eBay maintenance day when all manner of things can go wrong.

Re: click the link to accept payment

shizam123 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:47:53 GMT

this was a BIN sale ..a few days ago.. buyer sent me this email

This email confirms that you’ve nominated PayPal to receive an instant purchase payment of $50.00 AUD for your eBay item

This payment was sent through PayPal - the safer, easier way to get paid online.
Once you accept your payment on PayPal, you can withdraw the money or use it in many different ways.
Simply click the link below to accept payment

but there is no payment pending in my paypal account and when I click on view paypal transaction ..it says

the transaction ID in your link is invalid

scam or what?

Re: click the link to accept payment

shizam123 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:48:51 GMT

this email did not come from paypal it came from the buyer

Re: click the link to accept payment

*sparklz* — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:43:47 GMT

It is a scam

DO NOT click on the link and if you have change all you pas words NOW.

Re: click the link to accept payment

shizam123 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:51:45 GMT

I didn't click on the link...I will report it and hope ebay does something about it

Re: click the link to accept payment

*sparklz* — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:00:05 GMT

If it came to your email address forward it too spoof@paypal.com and they can look into it and will let you know it is fake.

Re: click the link to accept payment

lyndal1838 — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 05:53:14 GMT

Sparklz, there is no point reporting it to paypal as it did not come from paypal....it came from the buyer, direct to the OPs email addy.

Re: click the link to accept payment

go-tazz — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:14:35 GMT

It's a phishing Email

This email confirms that you’ve nominated PayPal to receive an instant purchase payment of $50.00 AUD for your eBay item

If you simply look at that you can see that it only mentions an eBay item.

A genuine PP Email should state the item number.

Simply click the link below to accept payment

As stated,PP don't ask you to click on links,(they ask you to log in via your browser or through your safe log in),:-D

Re: click the link to accept payment

*sparklz* — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:33:17 GMT

Lyndal all I am saying is that PP will verify it is NOT from them.

Re: click the link to accept payment

model.trains — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:14:48 GMT

Dear Lyndal1838

Spoof@Paypal.com is exactly the place to report this phishing scam to, as that is what they are there for, to confirm or deny that it is a real Paypal notification.

They can also keep track of people trying to use their name to defraud customers and hopefully shut them down.

I like to think that they have a room full of Paypal Nerds in masks & shiny capes, sitting around eating burger rings, with a range of really nasty trojan viruses ready to send to any phishing scam they find. ZAP!! POW!!

Re: click the link to accept payment

digital*ghost — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:33:06 GMT

this was a BIN sale ..a few days ago.. buyer sent me this email

This email confirms that you’ve nominated PayPal to receive an instant purchase payment of $50.00 AUD for your eBay item

This payment was sent through PayPal - the safer, easier way to get paid online.
Once you accept your payment on PayPal, you can withdraw the money or use it in many different ways.
Simply click the link below to accept payment

but there is no payment pending in my paypal account and when I click on view paypal transaction ..it says

the transaction ID in your link is invalid

scam or what?

All PayPal payments come from the buyer's email address, at least every single one I've ever received has, and I get the message re: invalid transactions from clicking the eBay link even when the payment has gone through without a hitch, so that alone isn't cause for concern.

It's also very odd that eBay is giving you the option to view the PayPal transaction, as that generally means that they have at least gone through checkout and confirmed a PayPal payment.

I'm not saying you should click on the link in the email, but you should definitely investigate a little further, as it may be that they have sent a payment to an incorrect address, although I'm not 100% sure you'd get a payment notification if that were the case.

Re: click the link to accept payment

viewmont1071 — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:13:44 GMT

I have been getting two or three spoofs a day for the last 3 weeks or so with the same content. You can usually link the start of the emails with a website where you used the email address ie. 3 weeks ago I bunged some stuff up on my gumtree account and the next morning the spoofs started flowing in.

I just bumped the gumtree ads so I am expecting another flurry.

Enthusiasts sites (car and collector enthusiast sites for me) are also a good email harvest ground for the scammers.

Re: click the link to accept payment

shizam123 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:21:03 GMT

I have reported this to ebay and they said they have taken care of it , no real information as to whether it's legit or not

I sent it to spoof paypal and haven't heard back from them

and now I get a reminder what appears to be from paypal this time to click on link to claim my payment

has anyone here ever had to click on a link to claim payment ?

I never have

Re: click the link to accept payment

go-tazz — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:19:15 GMT

has anyone here ever had to click on a link to claim payment ?

I never have

You never click on any link to claim a payment.

You only ever claim a payment through your Paypal account via a secure log in.