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New type of PayPal spam discovered

January 22, 2016

Security researcher Troy Hunt has come across a new type of spam – $0 invoices from PayPal accounts. These emails evade spam filters as they fail to trigger the typical characteristics of a suspicious email.

Sharing a screencap on his website of an email of dubious origin, Hunt explains how the email managed to get through to him as it is in fact a legitimate PayPal email, just one that asks for no money.

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