Fake invitations that imitate Paperless Post are a known phishing tactic: the email says someone invited you to an event and sends you to a page that asks for your email password. A genuine Paperless Post invitation does not require you to log in with your email password or to download anything. If an invitation asks for either, do not continue.
At a glance
- What Paperless Post is: a service for sending digital invitations and cards, which is why its name is easy to imitate.
- The scam pattern: an unexpected “invitation” that asks you to sign in with your email credentials or to download a file.
- Genuine links, per Paperless Post: start with paperlesspost.com, pp.events or links.paperlesspost.com.
- Genuine senders, per Paperless Post: paperless@email.paperlesspost.com, paperlesspost@paperlesspost.com and paperlesspost@accounts.paperlesspost.com.
- A real invitation never needs: a login, a download or an attachment to open.
Warning signs
- You were not expecting an invitation, or you do not know the sender.
- You are asked to sign in with your email address and password before you can view it.
- You are asked to download an attachment or file.
- The link goes to a domain that is not one of the official ones listed above.
Why this works on people
Local news reports in 2026 describe phishing scams disguised as party invitations that target email accounts. An invitation feels low-risk and social, so people open it quickly, and a stolen email account can then be used to reach contacts and reset other accounts.
What to do with a suspicious invitation
- Do not click the link or open any attachment.
- Check the sender’s full address against the genuine ones above, not just the display name.
- If you think the invitation is real, go to paperlesspost.com yourself and look for it there, or ask the person who supposedly sent it using another channel.
- Report the message as phishing in your email app and delete it.
- If you already entered your password, change it now, turn on two-factor authentication and check your account’s forwarding rules and recent sign-ins.
What we could not verify
We could not open Paperless Post’s help page directly because the site blocked our request, so the sender addresses and domains above are taken from the excerpt of that page shown in search results. Check the linked page for the current list. We have not examined any particular phishing email or page ourselves.
Sources
- Paperless Post Help: Spotting fake Paperless Post emails and spam texts
- Atlanta News First: Phishing scams disguised as party invitations target email accounts
- NBC Los Angeles: Beware of phishing scheme via electronic invitations, cybersecurity experts warn
- Washington University Information Security: Scam of the Month, Special Invite