Paypal scam???

[Noni]

Sounds fishy


We recently reviewed your account, and we need more information about your business to allow us to provide uninterrupted service. Until we can collect this information, your access to sensitive account features will be limited. We would like to restore your access as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Why is my account access limited?

Your account access has been limited for the following reason(s):

April. 07, 2006: We have observed activity in this account that is unusual or potentially high risk.

(Your case ID for this reason is *************)
How can I restore my account access?

Please visit the Resolution Center and complete the "Steps to Remove Limitations."

Once you complete all of the checklist items, your case will be reviewed by one of our Account Specialists. We will send you an email with the outcome of the review.

[XA04]

Looks quite genuine to me (as they weren't asking you to go to a dodgy site), best way to check it out is by visiting the PayPal website (type the URL into the address bar).
When you login you will probably get some type of message about it.


Was there any links in the email address?. If so, don't click them.

[Mike Fishcake]

I agree with XA04. type paypal.co.uk into your address bar and have a look at your info there. Do not do anything else.

If I had to place a bet, I'd say it was a spoof email.

[Clunk]

ive had the exact same one and it was a spoof email...just forward it to spoof@paypal.co.uk and you should hear back today if it was from them or not.

[project187]

i had email simalar to that if not the same and it was real deal

[Whiternoise]

Yeh, forwarding it to the company should work. Some companies (like Barclays i think) have a section with samples of fraud emailsso users can compare, maybe paypal has a section like that.

[integerspin]

I get maybe half a dozen paypal scam letters a day. They follow a pattern. The main thing is all the links and everything are to paypal, except the one to login, if you use mailwasher it shows the code of the link so it will say a href="iamathivingscumbag.ru/ebaylogin.html." or similar.. I also recieve a sack load of very similar ones to this every day purporting to be from my bank, but it's every bank you can think of, i don't even give them a second though they get deleted..

sending them to ebay seems pretty pointless..