I check my email once a week and tonight I noticed an email from PayPal with the subject: "Urgent: Steps Needed for Your Recent Payment" (the email was from PayPal and looking at the email headers it seems legit).
Inside was text saying I received 0.04 cents: "You received this email because your PayPal account processed a payout by small deposit confirmation. If you authorized it, no action is needed. If not, please contact PayPal Customer Care at +1 (888) ***-*195 immediately to secure your account and request a refund."
I blanked out the phone number which I thought was PayPal but Google does not associate it with PayPal. HA - I just realized that is the text of the payment, so the person who sent the payment included that number - sneaky!
Anyway, I logged into PayPal and I have a balance of $10.04. Looking at my 90 day activity, it says that BULLSHIT company sent me $0.04 on Friday (and included the same text I wrote above). I assume it's a test to see whether my account works.
But anyway, long story long... when I logged into PayPal it says: "You have money waiting for you $10.04. Accept the money." I wonder where the $10 came from; it's not within my 90 day activity, but I'm afraid to click on the PayPal button to "Accept the money" which links to www+paypal+com/myaccount/balance/get-started/.....blah...blah... because I don't want to legitimately accept the fake 4 cents. (I put the + in the URL so it doesn't create a smartlink)
What happens when you click "Accept the money" in PayPal? Does it then automatically transfer it into your account? (that's why I don't want to click it) Or does it go to another screen with more info? (I hope it's that so I can investigate)
But any other way to check where the $10 came from? It could be legit from a long time ago, but I don't remember. Thank you.