Do Paypal send out security notices?

[cathy12l247sq]

Have just recieved a e-mail saying i have had suspicious activity on my paypal account and would i download a form off this e-mail to stop paypal from suspending my paypal account do they do this ?

this happened on my lloyds tsb account but was an email fraud scam i was given an email address to send all emails to and they dealt with them can u help me ?

[PayPal_lucy]

Hey there,

This is a fake email and not sent from PayPal.

You can forward any emails you are unsure of to spoof@paypal.com

The 1^st thing to check on an email is who it is addressed to. If it has something generic like Dear PayPal member or Hello valued customer then it definitely is not form PayPal.

PayPal will always address an email to the name on the PayPal account.

[thandizo]

I receive the following mail at least once a month, I forward it to spoof@paypal.com Why do paypal appear unable to stop these e-mails? From: PayPal Account Information Thu, Feb 21, 2013 3:27 AM EET View full HTML message This notice has been automatically generated by our security systems to inform you that on Thursday 21st February 2013 multiple unsuccessful attempts were made to access your account. As we take security of our customers accounts seriously we ask that you login using the following link to verify your account. http://www.paypal.co.uk/(followed by a series of numbers which this forum doesn't allow me to post) Yours Sincerely, PayPal Accounts Depart

[PayPal_david]

Hi there Thandizo,

Welcome to the Community!

I understand that it can be very frustrating when these emails are being received that ask you to respond and provide information through a link.

We are unable to stop these emails from being sent. These emails would be sent to thousands of people at the same time. All we can do is ask customers like yourself to forward the emails to us and we can try to prevent them from being sent in future.

The best thing to do would be to know what to look out for and how to determine if an email was a genuine email or not.

I hope this information helps.

David.