I received an email allegedly coming from PayPal yesterday, starting
Dear PayPal valued member,
it went on to say......
PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for
its community of buyers and sellers.
To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs
some of the most advanced security systems in the world
and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal
system for unusual activity.
Recently, our Account Review Team identified some unusual
activity in your account.
In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure
that your account has not been compromised, access to
your account was limited.
To restore your account please click on the link bellow:
it then gave a link to click
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK
I'm always suspicious of anythink like this, so I forwarded the email to PayPal.........they verified that it was
not from them. It certainly looked very genuine, but it is
NOT
If you receive anything the same, or similar either send it to PayPal for them to investigate, or simply
DELETE it straight away.
All genuine PayPal accounts begin with
https://
a secure address, even to log into
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