Possible Paypal Scam? - Beware!

Got this email from PayPal tonight, but am very suspicious. First of all the message has some basic grammatical and typesetting errors. Not up to PayPals quality.



When I clicked on the Update Now button I notice the want me to give them my password then 'Sing Up'

Hmmmmmm. Even the logo artwork on this one looks suspect.



I'll take my chances and not give them the info.

Thought you should all know.


James

A good warning to all. Thanks James!

These phishing emails occur for lots of other business accounts as well, even your bank. Bottom line: NEVER NEVER NEVER click on links in an email (you can always exam the link URL first). Always log onto your business accounts through your normal logon bookmark for that site, to see if there really is a problem.

*** ALL *** EMAILS FROM "PAYPAL" OR " ebay" ARE FAKE IF THEY ARE NOT
ADDRESSED TO YOUR PERSONAL NAME OR ACCOUNT BUSINESS NAME... PAYPAL
*ONLY* SENDS EMAIL TO THE NAME ON THE ACCOUNT...

*** ALL *** "DEAR MEMBER/DEAR VALUED MEMBER" EMAILS ARE FAKE...

I got that very same email too. Seems to be getting more and more common this type of phishing mail. Annoying. Fortunately this one was easy to recognize as scam. Some are a lot more sophisticate.....

Yeah, phishing emails have been around almost as long as email.

Honestly I've noticed a big decline in them. But I've noticed a serious increase in phishing phone calls since caller ID spoofing was created.

Whenever there are spelling errors I know it's fake. The one you showed had customer spelled wrong as well as grammatical mistakes

You can forward those on to spoof@paypal.com for their information. Supposedly they try and track down the fake messages. Also if you hold your mouse pointer over the address in your in-box you may see something other than Paypal as the sender.

Another type of phishing is when you get an email from fed-ex or UPS that they have a package for you that they can not deliver. If you have ordered something and put your correct address on it there is no reason that it can not be delivered! Please beware!

Peter

forwarded to paypal immediately after received.

Lots of very valid information provide above!

1. If the sender doesn't know your name, it is a fake
2. If the URL for the response is not back to the supposed source, but somewhere else, it is a fake. (just put the pointer on the response link and it will highlite where the response is to be sent)
3. If the email has spelling errors, grammatical mistakes or "stilted" English... it is a fake.
4. Never respond to unexpected "vendor" email, but log into your account and check out their new "messages" listings.
5. If you get two exact or very similar notices immediately following each other it is a fake.
6. When in doubt, don't respond .. if it is in fact a real message, they will send a second notice.

never click on a link in an email I get these things all the time it used to be worse, now they have to buy something to get my email addy they used to be able to send them to everyone who they saw selling.

By clicking the link you may have had malware secretly installed on your computer, getting an id and password might have just been the icing on the cake. I report them immediately so the big companies work on taking them down. Run good antivirus in the background to protect your self.

Thank you for posting.

Good grief. You *NEVER* click on links in these emails. Crouse is right, your computer may now be infected.

As is also mentioned above, you can completely ignore the content of any of these emails if they don't contain your full legal name or business name in the salutation. If the email does not have that ONE thing accurate, click delete. Nothing more needs to be analyzed.

It's not rocket surgery.

Never click any link from paypal esp ones that say dear value customer or client. Even if you don't sign in if you clicked the link you install something into your internet browser or worse hidden in your hard drive. And likely its a keylocking trojan. Make sure you have one of the top 10 antimalware / virus installed on your PC and scan daily. I use advanced system care ultimate. jamesw since you clicked update now you scan your pc, wipe your browser history and change your passwords. These scammers are clever I have been getting bombarded with fake paypal emails that look like you paid for something when you know you didn't, I send all these emails to spoof at paypal so they can investigate them and then I immediately wipe them outa me email. These scammers are so tricky these days you can get virues through emails without even knowing it.

On any unanticipated email, no matter what your email application displays as the sender name, you can simply open the email in a text app (like Notepad in Windows). Look at the email header info. Don't be put off with some of the weird looking info and instead look for the 'Received' section. This identifies the email server that sent the email and cannot be spoofed as easily as what gets displayed as the 'sender' in the email itself.

And opening the email in a text app like Notepad is safe, no malicious code can run in Notepad.
Don