Phishing email + Ebay/Paypal - how's it done?

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Just now, for the second time in maybe a fortnight, I've completed a Paypal transaction on Ebay and shortly after been favoured with an email headed "Receipt for your payment to Skype", which invites me to click on the link kindly provided therein in the unlikely event that I don't recall making such a payment. Apart from other glaringly obvious clues for the blind and the daft that all is not what it purports to be, the sender (this time) isn't actually "service@paypal.co.uk" but "focu@mediao.co.uk".

OK, how's this done? What actually triggers whatever it is that sends these out?
 
I used to get these on a monthly basis. Delete. Dunno how it works, mine didn't seem to correspond to any particular transactions.
 
As Brash says, delete them, but before you do send them to - spoof@paypal.com.
 
Yeah, it's the "how's it done?" bit that intrigues me - particularly as these are the only phishing emails I ever get!
 
Serendipitous Sid said:
Yeah, it's the "how's it done?" bit that intrigues me - particularly as these are the only phishing emails I ever get!
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Sid - it is just coincidence. Honestly - but kudos for only getting a very small amount on Spam unless your provider is blocking the rest of it.

I also get the Paypal for Skype ones and they don't come at the same time as a completed transaction. Apart from the hugely gullible, or very inexperienced, the only other way you get caught out is coincidence. You always delete the Chase/Bank of America/etc bank ones automatically until you get one from a bank you actually have an account with and then you double take on it. Same with this.... lots of people use eBay, many people have Apple iCloud, use Paypal etc..
 
As above with the coincidence, do not think it has anything to do with a recent payment via Paypal.
After a bit of research, the Skype scam seems to have been going from around 2012.
I wouldn't read to much into it.
 
I would scan for malware, given what you have said you might have a cookie scanner on board.

install malwarebytes and do a full scan.
 
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