Quote:Many PayPal users have seen their fair share of phishing emails ever since they signed up for the service. Being a financial service, PayPal is a high value target for criminal organizations.

Recently, a new phishing scam has been making the rounds that breaks with one of the fundamental tips to avoid being phished. You may have heard it before: one of the easiest options to identify most phishing emails is to look at the sender email. Yes, experienced users know that this is not perfect, but it can be used to weed out a good percentage of phishing mails straight away.

This new PayPal phishing scam passes that test, as its sender email appears to be service@paypal.com. This is a legitimate email that PayPal users for communication with its customers.

Surprisingly, this is not the first time that scammers used PayPal systems to send phishing emails from legitimate PayPal emails.

The email states that a new address was added to the PayPal account in question. It lists the address and also information about shipment changes for a MacBook M4 Max. It contains a phone number that is supposedly from PayPal support as well.

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