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PayPal sending offer emails with click button

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  • 28-09-2022 7:02pm
    #1
    kirk.
    Registered Users Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭kirk.


    Surely this is a bad idea being directed to the website with a offer button in my email app

    Does it not encourage phishers to try and mimmick the offer

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    Wheety
    Registered Users Posts: 5,512 ✭✭✭Wheety


    I wouldn't even trust that one.



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    #3
    kirk.
    Registered Users Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭kirk.


    Hmm ya now that you mention it what can ya trust

    I logged in via my PayPal bookmark and the offer was there on the website so it is genuine



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    Sarn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭Sarn


    I had the same concerns about phishers and logged in using the normal PayPal site. The €3 offer was there.



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    #5
    kirk.
    Registered Users Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭kirk.


    Ya I have the €3 in the balance but I thought we were being encouraged to login only via our bookmarked website

    This all seems to be encouraging customers to blindly click on redirect buttons



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    Wheety
    Registered Users Posts: 5,512 ✭✭✭Wheety


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119677563#Comment_119677563

    Yeah, that's what I meant. I don't click links in unsolicited emails. For a service like PayPal just log in separately to your account.



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    endofrainbow
    Registered Users Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭endofrainbow


    You only got E3.00? I got E5.00 !



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    Abril Most Duckling
    Posts: 0 ✭ Abril Most Duckling


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119677563#Comment_119677563

    But a scammer can see a genuine offer on a website, partly clone it to siphon money into scammer account and send link by dodgy email with a very similar domain name. You can’t be up to the more elaborate ones.



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