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by zensayyy 1344 days ago
cert? that's an email. It's quite easy to change the mail from to be anything you want. Have a look on the dmarc fields if you want to be sure. Although I'm pretty sure that paypal always address the customer with their actual name...
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Exactly. Need to see DMARC, SPF headers. Email headers are what you want to see. "From: <blah>" without those means nothing, and is trivially spoof-able.