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Megy86
New member | Level 2
3 years ago
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Suspicious email about a charge?

I received this email today and don’t know what to make of it. I definitely didn’t buy what is in the invoice. The email this came from is non-reply@dropbox.com. It has the drop box logo and at the bottom of the page it says Dropbox invoice but everything in the email says PayPal. I took screenshots I wish I could upload on here to show.

To: PayPal User
billing.receipt@PayPal.com
From: no-reply@PayPal.com
Issued March 24, 2023
Confirmation of Dogecoin (DOGE) purchase:
$634.83 via PayPal. Funds will reflect in account
Title within 24 hours. For refund or cancellation,
contact support at: +1_(888) 510-8004

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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    3 years ago
    livvvv4 wrote:

    I received this email that is from no-reply@dropbox.com but the sender name says Paypal corp and if you hit reply it is addressed to a gmail that has nothing to do with Dropbox.

    That's a pretty clear indicator that it's a scam. This one seems to be making the rounds as several others have reported it as well. I've merged your post in with theirs. Take a look at the previous replies above.

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    3 years ago

    Hi livvvv4, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

     

    Please could you forward this email to abuse@dropbox.com for them to investigate this matter in more detail.

     

    They'll be able to look into this further.

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    3 years ago
    Kennymb5384 wrote:

    How is it "obvious"?

    Dropbox doesn't sell Dogecoin, for starters, so why would they be trying to charge you for that?

  • dmccandless's avatar
    dmccandless
    Explorer | Level 3
    3 years ago
    It's obviously a fraudulent email. I was sharing it for the benefit of others

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