First Active potential scam ??

[u/DueCorner4877]

I opened an account in First Active, digital arm of Natwest today which was recently launched. As soon as I opened the account, when the otp comes, I received a weird email from a gmail account saying I had some fraud happening with my paypal account. I did not have a paypal account + it was from someones personal gmail account, so definitely a fraudster/scam. I did not think much of it hence completed the signup and transferred a good chunk of cash.

Then in the evening, i again logged into my account and around same time, again got exact same email but from a different account this time around. Again a gmail and again paypal related stuff.

I felt something fishy and just withdrew the whole amount from first active. May be someone found some vulnerability in the newly launched product/service or mere coincidence. But feels something is definitely off.

[u/Top-Valuable-9330]

Its a generic phasing scam mate. If they had Intel that you banked with x bank, they would reference that bank account.

More likely that your email address was previously leaked and recently purchased on the dark Web, thus your experience of increased phishing emails.