Is this genuine?

lyniced

I got this email this afternoon - can you tell me if its genuine. Thanks
Dear, Paypal Customer.

It has come to our attention that your PayPal billing updates are out of order. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your billing records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records will result in account termination.

If you are the rightful holder of the account you must click the link below and then complete all steps from the following page as we try to update your account billing records.


Click here to activate your account


Once you have updated your account records your PayPal session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.

If you need to cancel updata your Account Billing Records, please log in to your PayPal account, click Profile, Preapproved Payments, then Details for your Billing Agreement, then Cancel.

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

cafenervosa_2

That is a scammer don't do it!!

Paypal will never ask you to click their link from an email.

I get these all the time, if your account has any issues log into paypal.com and look that way. The emails always make out that my account has issues but when I log in my account is perfectly normal.

Also Paypal will email you with a Dear Scott Smith not Dear Paypal Customer!

lyniced

cafenervosa wrote:

That is a scammer don't do it!!

Paypal will never ask you to click their link from an email.

Thanks for that

cafenervosa_2

lyniced wrote:

Thanks for that

Any emails like that, even from ebay ignore them. These scammers want your details so they can hijack accounts and con people etc.

pennylane99

its a phishing email...put the first line into Google and lots of sites come up about it....

teapot2

Also surely in a legit email they would use your name not 'Dear paypal customer' - always a sure sign its phishing?

Esoog

Yuss, Paypal/ebay include your real name as a sort of proof that its a legit email (and they say so in the same email)