Description

The scammer emailed me twice representing itself to be PayPal [email protected]. When I "hovered" on the email address to confirm if it seemed legitimately to be coming from PayPal, the hovered e-address also read as [email protected], so it looked legit but still felt wrong. The emails claimed to be notifying me of suspicious payments to Gemini.com--a different payment in each email---and each email specified a different phone number to call to stop payment: (805) 500-6267 and (805) 500-6859. Both numbers looked suspicious. I went online to google Gemini.com, (805) area code, the 2 (805) numbers, and a legit number to call PayPal. Gemini is ID'd as a crypto seller. The numbers are confirmed ID'd as scams naming PayPal as the source. Per PayPal instrux, I forwarded the phony emails to [email protected] and deleted the original emails. The really tricky part is how the email address seemed to check out. This level of sophistication is very scary.