scam email

[Mickyvgb]

You sent a payment Transaction ID: 281138078J760221L

Dear,

You sent a payment for £251.00 GBP to Evolution RC Ltd.

Please note that it may take a little while for this payment to appear in the Recent Activity list on your Account Overview.

View the details of this transaction online and verification of credit card

If you want to cancel the operation, please click here and follow the steps.

Amount: £251.00 GBP Sent on: 04 October 2013

Yours sincerely,
PayPal

[hajiness]

Yes the exact thing happened to me today? Did you figure out how to fix the problem. Its happened twice to me now 😞

[StitchingIvy]

Disregard it, or forward the email to your countries Anti-Fraud Section.  If you know you didn't send this company anymoney, mark it as junk too.

[PayPal_Siobhán]

Good advice @StitchingIvy 

Siobhan 

[Leathersmithe]

Just received the same one today and would have contacted PayPal to register my ire but it looks like that's unecessary.  Just another irritant, a burr in my Internet sock - a scammer, a vile and low crittur, Phishing for Phools like me.

[CharlieCB]

I"ve recieved it 3 times now, always sent from myself so I cant block the emails either...

[paulcunny]

I've had this email! i rang paypal & they confirmed its a fake email & that my account was safe & secure! just to delete the email & check my account for any deductions if i get anymore!

[PayPal_Conor]

Hi All,

I hope you don't me jumping in on this thread.

I'd like to just echo what paulcunny has confirmed, that this email is not a genuine email from PayPal.

Could I ask you all to please forward the email to spoof@paypal.co.uk and then delete it from you inbox?

You'll know an email is not from PayPal when:

-The email uses a generic greeting like 'Dear User' or 'PayPal member'. In this email the sender has just used 'Dear'.

-The email requests financial and other personal information or encourages you to dispute a payment

-The email includes an attachment or a software update to install to your PC.

I hope this helps guys

Conor

[waddha]

Yes, the 'Dear,' by itself looked like it was a scam, along with the weird URLs for the links and the out-of-date transactions/incorrect details -- only when it had arrived several times in the same day did it seem like a good idea to check whether it was just me!

I've forwarded them to spoof@paypal.co.uk as suggested.

[KSutt88]

Have received the exact same email myself.

[j_sheard]

Exact same email for me as well