I have been doing IT and Security work for several years now but there are always scams going on. I had a scammer try just this morning to get me to send them money. I have had paypal since I have been old enough and I have never seen something like this before. As you can see they sent a request for $699.99 with a note asking about fradulent activity. I went in and denied their request.

Here are some of the things that I used to determine this was a scammer.

• The email address is a gmail account that is just random numbers and letters.

• When searching the phone number it does not return to a legitimate business

• They make this sound urgent by saying if I did not "purchase specific items" but yet it was a request not an approved charge