paypal email possible phishing

worried_jim

Just received this paypal email, I think it maybe phishing and wondered if anyone else has has one recently-

Dear PayPal Member,

As part of our efforts to provide a safe and secure environment for the online community, we regularly screen account activity. While reviewing your PayPal accounts, we observed activity that we would like to further verify. For this reason, limitations have been placed on your account until your will review your registered intormation. In order to resolve the account limitations, complete our online form by clicking on the following link :

Log into your PayPal account

After we have gathered the necessary information, your account will be reviewed for reinstatement and you will be notified by e-mail of our decision.

We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter and apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,
Account Review Department

© 2009 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. PayPal is located at 2211 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131.

timbim_2

Reeks of a phish. Just look at the link, it doesn't point anywhere near a paypal website.

aliEnRIK

Look at the first part ~
"Dear PayPal Member"

They put your actual name in all genuine paypal emails

gazza1957

The link is quite obvious, dont use it!!!

worried_jim

I have logged onto paypal directly and there are no errors, messages or problems- another scam then.

loudcox

If you suspect anything: always, always, always manually type in the address of the website from whom the email purports to come from. e.g. paypal.com in this instance.

Paypal recently contacted me as there was a potentially fraudulent transaction on my account. As another poster says, they'll explicitly address you by name in the email; also when I logged in I was notified that my account was restricted - so login directly to paypal and see what you find

loudcox

BTW, use https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_security-center to report the phishing email

hannoja

Hi,

I've got 'Web Security Guard' and it keeps blocking my Paypal emails, among others. It then turns the email into a sea of red and I can't read it. The last one reported that Paypal was trying to download segments from 'p0.com', which WSG 'says' is a 'dangerous website'. 'WoT' results echo this.

Does anyone know how I can simply block the 'undesirable segments', so that I can still view the email? The only way I can think of right now is to find out what the 'bad' sites are each time, and add them to my browser block list.. (that would be a pain!)

I've just disabled WSG and have 'dip-checked' a couple of the 'offending' emails: they seem pretty genuine to me. Perhaps WSG (from Spyware Terminator) is just rubbish.. I don't know :think:

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks

jon_r_2

yes scam! on mine they spelt paypal wrong, peypal!

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