Pay Pal

jill36_2

Just had this email from ? Pay Pal


Dear PayPal User
Your account has been limited : You Must Confirm Your Information!

Please click on the following link to Confirm It:

Click here to Confirm Your Account Information.

You Must Confirm Your Information To Save It .

Thanks You For Helping,
The PayPal Team

What does this mean? Is it genuine? I haven't clicked on link

Jill

Toxteth_OGrady

no it's a phishing scam. Ignore it.

ChiefGrasscutter

genuine messages invariably address you by your name and not "Paypal User"

googler

Don't click on the link.

In your web browser, open up https://www.paypal.com or .co.uk, whichever you use, and log into your account as you normally do.

Inspect your account, look for any warnings from Paypal. If there's nothing here, you've confirmed the e-mail as a scam. Delete it.

aerostar

"Thanks You For Helping,"

Bad English is also a clue

If you know how to look at the headers, that will also give clues.

Figment

It's a phishing attempt. Paypal will ALWAYS address you by name, as registered on your account.

Do not click any of the links.

Forward the message to spoof@paypal.com

Juzza12

I had one last night and this morning, both terrible English, just forwarded them to the spoof address.

I once had a spoof e-mail with my full name in so I never click on links anyway.

gb12345

jill36 wrote: »

Please click on the following link to Confirm It:

Click here to Confirm Your Account Information.

PayPal will never ask you to click on a link to confirm your details, they will ask you to go to the PayPal site and sign in normally.

victor2

About as genuine as this one I found in my spam folder last week...

Dear Sir/Madam

This email is to inform you that we are compensating 10 scam victim this
month, we have had a lot of complain from people all over the world that
they have been a victim of scam mostly buy Nigeria, so we the Nigeria
government have come to conclution that we should give 10 Lucky people
1Million Gbp each are scam compensation, contact the Pacific Express Courier
for immediate delivery of your Bank Draft of 1,000,000GBP

Send the below information to the pecific courier for delivery:

Name:

Address:
Country:
phone Number:

Contact Details Of Pacific Express
Courier
Disparch Officer: Mr Ken phillip
Email: <removed>
Best Regards
Senate President of
Nigeria
Mr David Mark.

Made me laugh though.

-TangleFoot-

aerostar wrote: »

If you know how to look at the headers, that will also give clues.

• Message headers - Gmail Help
• Different problem; same solution - ignore or report.

Here's a real one (screenshot only) for comparison.

cajef

Don't usually get a lot of spam but had three in two days in my spam folder all allegedly from Paypal and asking to click on a link, as if.:rotfl:

All forwarded to [EMAIL="spoof&#64;paypal.com"]spoof@paypal.com[/EMAIL]