With more than 434 million users and counting, PayPal is an attractive target for scammers. Many online scams that involve payment apps—including Cash App, Venmo, and Zelle—bank on the fact that users ...

There's a new, sophisticated PayPal scam draining the bank accounts of unsuspecting victims. Hackers are ambushing users of the platform in a tricky way that seems so legit, it's not sending off alarm ...

PayPal and Venmo just rolled out something big: AI-powered scam alerts for Friends and Family payments. If you've ever worried about accidentally sending money to a scammer, this new feature is ...

Update, March 10, 2025: This story, originally published March 8, has been updated with in-depth mitigation advice from PayPal regarding attack attempts and tactics, as well as a recommendation that ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Some scammers are using online payment system PayPal as a part of their scam, even on people who don’t have PayPal accounts. These phishing scams don’t involve ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Let’s get two things out of the way before digging deeper into ...

An ongoing PayPal email scam exploits the platform's address settings to send fake purchase notifications, tricking users into granting remote access to scammers For the past month, BleepingComputer ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Both PayPal and Spotify have made negative headlines in recent weeks. In late August, a data leak of 15.8 million PayPal accounts appeared for sale on the web. More recently, Spotify went live with a ...