Weird PayPal email

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I just received a weird email from Paypal. Here's what it looked like this:

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I'm positive this is fake. I've been logging into my PayPal account at school and home for over a year and have never received this.

Then you get to the content of the letter. It doesn't have my email address under "To:", no PayPal information at the bottom, and it says to do this by Feb (not February or a certain date) and it's already March 6th.

I plan on just leaving this alone unless someone else has received something similar before.
 
yeah, for one the email doesn't look legit and I bet if you click the link it won't be paypal.com. Delete the email.
 
[quote name='detectiveconan16']It's a really common scam.[/QUOTE]

Really? I've never received anything like this before.


I never clicked the link and just permanently deleted it so I should be good.
 
Any emails from paypal should always start with "Dear YourRealNameHere" So if you name was John Smith. It will read "Dear John Smith" if it doesnt have that, just delete it.
 
Personally I would not even pay attention to any paypal emails that are from "[email protected]", which I have received before. But in your case, its even more obvious its a complete scam, so don't click on it. If you ever get a suspicious email like that, it's better just to call Paypal up directly if you think something doesn't seem right.

People can carbon copy email addresses and send them, so even if it did say [email protected], it could still very well be fake, so if you're not sure to trust it or not, just call them up or check your account manually to see if anything is off.
 
If you ever receive an email regarding your PP account, the easiest thing to do is manually log into your PP account. DO NOT use the link provided, instead type paypal.com into the address bar.
 
[quote name='SlammedNiss']If you ever receive an email regarding your PP account, the easiest thing to do is manually log into your PP account. DO NOT use the link provided, instead type paypal.com into the address bar.[/QUOTE]

Exactly. As others have pointed out, this is a common scam, and this isn't even a very good attempt at it. But even if you get a very legit looking e-mail, I would still take this advice and go to PayPal yourself.

By the way, I got this e-mail today, too. I get one at least every month.
 
It's a total scam.

I remember a couple years back, my boyfriend (now fiance) came to pick me up. As I was heading out the door, my mom mentioned she wanted help 'with this Paypal thing' she got. I stopped dead and backed up- "what paypal thing?" "Oh, they said I need to verify my account info, but they wanted my social security number and stuff, so I thought I'd ask you first?"
...
"Was this an email?"
"yes."
"You clicked on a link and logged into paypal?"
"yeah..."
"One second-" I yelled out ther door my fiance that 'it'll be a sec, mom's getting phished!'

I explained the scam to her, and we found paypal's CS number, called, and had her account frozen while the agent made sure no fraudulent charges were made (there weren't.). She then gave my mom a secure login address to change her password, the [email protected] email to forward the message too, and the basic tips for catching these messages.

Not even an hour after fixing her account, she got another email telling her to 'click here to cancel the $600 charge made to your account'. Needles to say, she didn't click through that one- and she was pretty damn glad she mentioned the email to me before filling out the fake info page.
 
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