Scam Alert

The thing to do when you receive a notice that makes you nervous is to not respond to the email, but to check your PayPal accounts and credit card accounts to see if anything unusual is happening, always going to information sources you know are genuine.

I got one today from a mister "pratha kof" stating that I'd bought $387.87 in Bitcoin through PayPal, and to call a certain phone number if I wanted to cancel it.  No such transaction appeared in my PayPal account....a total scam.  Variations of this have been showing up for a while, and it's worrying that some people are unnerved enough by it to respond.

a lot of times, just look at the email address and it wont be a legit one and that should be a pretty good sign that something is  up

I just got e-mail from pay pal just now saying I received $100 I don't have a pay pal account

It’s not only PayPal. I’ve had these emails from apple, sams club, and others. You never want to call the number in the email. If you want to check, call the number from their website and ask them or check the status of your account from their website.

BTW: new to PayPal. I have money in PayPal due to a sale and now in order for PayPal to write me a check, I have to link a debit card or bank acct to PayPal. I called them and told them I probably have had 50 sales where PayPal has sent me a check in the past, now they require a linked bank account. I will never use PayPal again