{"id":2573,"date":"2019-04-06T19:34:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2573"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"PayPal-'You-Sent-a-Payment-to-Kogan'-Phishing-Scam-Email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2573","title":{"rendered":"PayPal ‘You Sent a Payment to Kogan’ Phishing Scam Email"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Kogan<\/a>
\nAccording to this email, which appears to be from PayPal, you have sent a payment of $299 (or $199) to Australian \u00a0online department store Kogan. The email features the PayPal logo and emulates a genuine PayPal transaction notification email.<\/p>\n

The email claims that you can click a ‘cancel transaction’ link to get a full refund if you did not authorise the payment to Kogan.<\/p>\n

However, the email is not from PayPal and the claim that a payment has been sent to Kogan from your account is untrue. The email is a phishing scam<\/a> designed \u00a0to trick you into divulging \u00a0your PayPal account details and other sensitive personal information to cybercriminals. The criminals hope that at least a few recipients will be panicked \u00a0into clicking the ‘cancel transaction’ link in the mistaken belief that their PayPal account has been compromised and used for fraudulent transactions.<\/p>\n

If you \u00a0do click the link, you will be taken to a bogus website designed to look \u00a0like the genuine PayPal page. \u00a0The page will ask you to enter your PayPal account login credentials. After you login, you will be taken to a second fake page that asks you to confirm your account by supplying your credit card details, contact details and other personal information. \u00a0A final page on the \u00a0fake site may then claim that you have \u00a0successfully cancelled the Kogan transaction.<\/p>\n

But, meanwhile, the scammers can use the information you supplied to hijack your PayPal account, commit fraudulent transactions using your credit card, and possibly steal your identity.<\/p>\n

This scammer ploy is quite common. Similar versions of the scam have claimed that you have sent a payment via PayPal to Apple<\/a>, ASDA<\/a>, and a host of other well-known companies.<\/p>\n

If you receive one of these emails, do not click \u00a0any links or open any attachments that it contains. It is always safest to login to your PayPal account by entering the account address into your browser’s address bar or via an official app.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that genuine PayPal emails will always greet you by name. They will never \u00a0use generic greetings such as ‘Dear Customer’. Nor will they use your email address as a greeting.<\/p>\n

You can report PayPal phishing attacks<\/a> via the reporting details listed on the company’s website.<\/p>\n