No reason to panic or be upset about receiving a fake invoice. Paypal was not hacked. Anyone can send you money or an invoice using your email address. Sending a bill to your paypal doesn't give the sender any access to your account or personal data. Paypal isn't going to hold your money or pay the bill. The only issue is those that may send their money without looking at the invoice. From the comments I've read here about this scam a lot of people are worried their accounts have been compromised and are angry at paypal for "lack of security". Your accounts are safe and there is no issue of any security lapse with paypal. Anyone with an email acct has received spam, scams, and phishing emails in their inbox. The only difference here with this invoice is the scammer came up with a novel approach. Instead of using your email address to fill your inbox the scammer is using it to send a bill thru paypal. The scammer doesn't know you and you haven't been hacked. He's just using a list of emails and casting out a large net to see if he catches anything. You can purchase lists containing thousands of email addresses on the internet pretty cheap and that's probably what this scammer did. Some of the email lists sold come from data breaches and contain passwords. If you have used the same password that you use for your paypal password on other sites it's a good idea to change your paypal password. You should always use unique passwords for different accounts and change your passwords regularly. I hope this info relieves the stress some of you are feeling. Just file the invoice in the trash. Many are having trouble with cancelling the invoice, this works on a desktop computer. I don't use the app so not sure if it's the same process. Here's how to cancel a money request or invoice: Log in to your PayPal account. Click Activity near the top of the page. Find the request or invoice you want to cancel. Select Cancel under "Actions." Click Yes or Send Cancellation.
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