I have received a couple of similar emails lately. Of course they don’t tell me which credit card has been used (I already receive alerts when anything is charged to a couple of my cards) so I would know about it. I just mark the emails as junk mail, which puts it in a to be deleted file, and move on. But they seem to be extra vigorous lately and I know there are poor souls out there who will fall for these scams.

jrb, normally I wouldnt but it was a .pdf so I thought it was safer and not executable...

Most of the scam emails I receive appear to be from PayPal and Norton. Both are organizations that I use, or have used. We haven’t had Norton for years.

Never click on any link. Go directly to your credit card online account and check for charges. I can check mine in seconds.

Forward the scam email to the company, using ’phishing@company name dot com’.

Annie, never open the attachments pdf or otherwise. I've gotten my share of those and I have an active Norton subscription. It's not Lifelock, it's my computers and phone protection - has always been our accountants first choice of plans. Many years.

They usually state they've charged to my PayPal, that's easy enough to check manually but I know they are all fakes before checking.

Just delete them, they aren't worth even a minute of your time or attention.

I delete all emails where I do not recognize the source, period. If there's any doubt I'll check the "to me" button and if the "to me" info is totally different from the original listed "from" source it = spam/phishing/etc

Yup. I've had several paypal imposters lately. If you're really unsure about phishing, look at the sender's e-address. It won't look as obvious as Susie at Wherever, but it won't look legit.

Thank you...I reported it as phishing.

I check all emails that are from an unknown source and report as spam BEFORE opening.

I do the same as vgkg. If I don't recognize I delete and then I go into trash and delete it immediately. Sometime it doesn't even show up in trash which indicates it really was a scam.

If I place my cursor on top of the subject line in my list of emails a little more info comes up and then I can really tell if it's real or not

There is also another scam coming in emails, and its from McAfee anti virus. Please do not open any of these.

The "Norton" and "McAfee" messages have been around for quite a while. Ignore them, delete them, carry on.

I've seen the scam but without an attachment that says 'Thank you for your payment'.

As Elmer said, ”quite a while.” Always ignore and delete.

I know when I have ordered anything. I know my companies and when they text or email. If I get anything, I just exit and go straight to the company thru my links. I never use an email link. Just mark anything else as spam/phishing without opening and you will not have any problems.

I got a phone voice mail claiming that my preorder for something (computer related IIRC) in my Walmart account had been successfully processed. Nonsense.

I get a lot of those 'your order has been" etc etc into my gmail account. Mark them all as phishing - gmail had already sent them to the spam folder.

Just a few days ago I got an email from Paypal saying that they had blocked a suspicious charge, and to use the app to deal with it. I don't have the app so I called in (the real phone # from the Paypal site) and the CS guy verified that the suspicious charge had been blocked and removed - he could not tell me anything more about it (like, what the charge was for), since it had been removed, but he also said that he wouldn't have access to see much anyway. He suggested that all I need do was to change my password, which I did. I am still quite puzzled since this was the only site where I used this password, and it shouldn't have been an "easy to crack" one.

@ Annie Deighnaugh said, "normally I wouldnt but it was a .pdf so I thought it was safer and not executable..."

NO! PDFs are not always safe! A virus and/or malicious code can be embedded in a PDF.

I just got the McAfee this week.! NEVER, NEVER open anything unfamiliar!!!!!!!

Well of course had I not opened it, I wouldn't've known what it was or who it was from. But I'll be more careful in the future.

" Well of course had I not opened it, I wouldn't've known what it was or who it was from. "

Wrong approach, this topic seems to have you puzzled. You don't need to know who it's from, you may want to know who it's NOT from but that doesn't matter so much either.

An email I got just the other day said this was the sender:

"SSA_Account_Review_Team"

And the title of the email was:

" Tips for New SSA Account Holders to Avoid Suspension "

The return email address of the sender was:

" majw1301@gmail.com"

Clearly not from the SSA. Clearly bogus. Who cares who it came from? There was a PDF attached, who cares? Delete button pushed.

I've been getting messages like this for years and years, Most but not all get trapped by the email providers screens. I'm sure most others have received similar messages too. It's not confusing, there's nothing more to know.

Not legit=delete. If I mistakenly delete something important, I'll hear again. Hasn't happened yet.