Scam email?

[dannyd18]

 i just got this email 3 times sent to my email it looks like a scam email to me as they cant spell.

Dear PayPal Costumer,

It has come to our attention that your PayPal® account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.

However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records before March 10 2013.

Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal® account activity will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.

[kernowlass]

Knew it was a scam in the first sentence as paypal never address you as Dear  Customer / User / Member etc. They always send emails to your full name eg Dear John Smith.

Also they never ask you to enter sensitive log in or financial info via a link in an email or a downloaded attachment.

[dannyd18]

i clicked on the link in the email as it was sent to me inbox an not junk for some reason but i did not login to paypal or give any details but now am worried about my account information.

[kernowlass]

Be careful clicking on links in emails unless you are absolutely sure they are safe.

As long as you didn't log on you should be ok BUT if you want to be on the safe side you could always change your password and security questions.

[floss]

Hello yes i have this email too, it is a fake there are spelling mistakes and paypal would address it to you personally,not(dear paypal costumer), never ever click on any links it supplies with the email, if in doubt search google for paypal and log in using your passwords etc from there,these people are getting very clever now sending virus's through emails and even stealing account information, be very careful 🙂