After some emailing, they give out contacts of “a lawyer” and a Paypal account where you’re asked to send $255 for “getting documents sorted out”. If anyone wants to have a chat with the “lawyer”, have fun:
I looked this up earlier but I wasn’t sure it was the right place for reporting since they’re not pretending to be Paypal. They’re just using a personal account for receiving scam money.
Oh yes, I didn’t even think about reporting the used emails as well. Looks like I’ll have to create a baitquest email, because I’m not sure I want to forward all that info under my real name. Would be good to keep those lives separate.
Oh wow, thank you for the info! If there is no response from the general phishing email, I’ll give one of these a go. I also saved them for the future, since I’ll probs encounter more Paypal accounts on my lottery scam hunts.
edit: I completely forgot I had gotten a Zelle account out of them as well. Gonna look up how to report that one.
PRESS REPLY and CUT (so won’t accidentally go to scammer) AND PASTE THAT ABOVE THE RAW MESSAGE HEADERS That you have already copied and pasted in the draft. HINT: WHEN you press REPLY you can RIGHT click on the HOTLINK ( button they encourage you to push ) and you DON’T paste back in the INBOX but mark as spam. You don’t have to copy hotlink when forwarding though. Sorry if you already know any of this I forward all the time without masking my email.
I was a bit confusing with the email comment I guess - I have personal emails with my actual name and then the scambait ones with the fake personas. The latter is tricky to use since tech scammers could see that stuff in my inbox in case anyone replies. Personal ones would prooobably be okay since I am not doing anything illegal and I just report info, but I have some alarm bells going off in my head still. But that’s not a topic for here
Thank you for all the info! I’m adding all of this to my “where to report” file for future reference.
