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This PayPal email scam is more sophisticated than usual. Read on for the red flags—and expert tips on how to protect yourself.

Late last year the popular Chrome extension Honey (owned by PayPal) was revealed for employing a few shady tactics, and the extension has since lost around 4 million users on Google’s browser alone.

PayPal’s Honey, once a popular Chrome browser extension that promised to save users money by finding coupon codes, lost approximately 3 million users, dropping from 20 million to 17 million.

Google updates its policy after YouTuber MegaLag details a scheme under which the PayPal-owned Honey swapped creators' affiliate links for its own.

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PayPal is a popular and generally safe online payment system with over 400 million users. However, scammers are exploiting its popularity to trick people, even those without PayPal accounts.

But this isn’t just any scam. The attackers are carrying it out with what appears to be PayPal’s official email address, making it highly convincing. Here’s what to look out for.

If you get an email from PayPal, proceed with caution: Scammers are using a legitimate PayPal address to send fraudulent purchase notifications to users in an attempt to gain remote access to your ...

The sender will check out, but the email likely contains a phishing attempt. As investigated by Bleeping Computer, this particular scam abuses PayPal’s gift address feature.

In our case, the scam email was sent to an email address with no PayPal account. Furthermore, as the emails are legitimate PayPal emails, they are bypassing security and spam filters.