"Wallet Balance Update" email from PSN -- anyone else get this? Potential phishing?

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Anyone receive an email from PlayStation Network saying that there are PSN wallet funds yet to be used? The email was brief and here's the text:

Dear ___________,

This is just a friendly reminder that you have funds in your PSN wallet that have not been used for six months or more.

To view your account balance, please sign-in to account management by clicking here. (link removed)

Your funds can be used for games, add-ons, movies, music and more, available in PlayStation®Store. (link removed)
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I clicked through and logged in to see my wallet balance on Sony's website, but after closing it, I was a little suspicious about the origin of the email. Took a quick peek at my other PSN emails and the boilerplate text at the bottom was a little different, so I did a search and found a couple other threads (here and here) of people calling it a potential phishing scam...but the site the email links to (on sonyentertainmentnetwork.com) is even referenced on PlayStation.com's own support pages (example here) so I don't doubt its legitimacy. I did change my PSN password from my PS3 after reading those threads, though.

Just wanted to give you a heads-up and see if anyone else got this email.
 
I got it too and immediately deleted it without clicking. I know for a fact I have spent money on PSN in the past 6 months so I knew it was either a mistake or a scam.
 
It's psn itself if ya click the attachment, well I forgot what that did, but I remember it involved the store lol. Oh and check you e-mail cause you got something in there too. Though no attachment on that one. It's all harmless though.
 
i'm pretty sure it's legit. i received this and a message on psn regarding unused wallet credit.. i checked and had 77 cents. i've also received this same email/psn message before pre-hack. it happens when you have any money sitting in your wallet unused for awhile, even a penny.
 
Doesn't really make sense. About a week and a half ago I had an empty wallet, wanted something, and had to add funds. I think I have a few pennies in there, but there can't be older than 10 days.
 
[quote name='mtxbass1']Sony has come out on Twitter and said it's legit...[/QUOTE]
Can you link to where Sony's said that? All I find on Twitter searches are people spreading the "scam" message.

Found this, too, which links to a growing thread on NeoGAF:

http://www.examiner.com/video-game-news-in-national/sony-warns-playstation-network-users-of-wallet-balance-update-phising-emails

I'm totally confused now.

Strange thing is, there are people receiving it who did not have 6-month-old wallet funds. The email had my PSN ID, too.
 
The links are legit and if you look up the whois it belongs to Sony. It was probably just a mistake on their part. I have spent about ten bucks or so in the past month and I got the email too.
 
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