Eight PayPal scams targeting Irish customers, from promo offers to shipping scam

PayPal is a giant in online payment processing, which makes it an appealing target for fraudsters looking for an easy payout.READ MORE:Irish parents warned to bin kid's bath toy as officials recall over 'risk of suffocation'

These scams are some of the most common social engineering attacks designed to gain access to your PayPal account.With this scam, you receive an email offering a cash rebate or other financial incentive. The email will tell you that you must log in to your PayPal account to verify a few details to claim that reward.

The only catch is that you first must send a small sum via PayPal to cover transaction fees , but once you send the small sum, you never hear from the scammer again, and you are out the money you sent.Scammers have a ton of shipping tricks up their sleeves to try and steal your money from PayPal. Unlike unsolicited emails that lead you to a fake PayPal site, these scam methods involve actually engaging with you on the real PayPal platform.

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