Phishing mail (PayPal style)

[nivek_hcerg]

I got this phishing mail:
PayPal

Information Regarding Your account:
Dear PayPal Member:

Attention! Your PayPal account has been limited!

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system.We recently contacted you after noticing an issue on your account.We requested information from you for the following reason:

Our system detected unusual charges to a credit card linked to your PayPal account.

Reference Number: PP-259-187-991

This is the Last reminder to log in to PayPal as soon as possible. Once you log in, you will be provided with steps to restore your account access.

Once you log in, you will be provided with steps to restore your account access. We appreciate your understanding as we work to ensure account safety.

Click here to activate your account



We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologise for any inconvenience..

Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department
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Look at the sender's list and see for yourself

What i say is this: If the sender's e-mail is not from a company, it's obviously a scam, others may be also like the one from uk national lottery so beweare...

[brayden]

I don't have a PayPal account so If they send me one it's obiviously a scam.

[Raymond]

You'll have to check the URL carefully. The website usually looks exactly the same but the URL is different.

[chunky]

Any mail from PayPal will address you by your name and not just Dear PayPal member. Even if you do not have a PayPal account it might be worth reporting it to PayPal so they can look into it and warn others.

[brayden]

maybe the best bet is not to make your PayPal e-mail notification a hotmail, g-mail or yahoo e-mail address or it might make it pretty hard to tell the differance between scam or genuine.