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kitbogashow / how-to-fix-paypal

Various ways to filter text emails to stop scammers from exploiting PayPal's invoice system.
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Warnings using Details HTML tag #17

Closed ioletsgo closed 1 year ago

ioletsgo commented 1 year ago

I feel like a super easy way to deal with abuse with the inbox system would be to use the <details> tag in HTML to give a warning that the contents in an invoice are of a user's creation, and to be warned that any content in the invoice section is user created and not an automated service of Paypal. Making the contents hidden until you have to acknowledge that the contents isn't the result of an automated system will largely reduce the impact of these possible scams. Example:

User Generated Invoice Hello yes we are Paypal support and here is our totally legit number tech support number.
ioletsgo commented 1 year ago

Largely the issue with the invoices are some abysmal design decisions, warnings and clarifications would go a long way.

kitbogashow commented 1 year ago

Moving this to discussions.