Scam Email regarding payment to Skype Inc

[Pam06]

Paypal users please beware of a scam Email regarding payments to Skype Inc.  I have just received an Email supposedly from Paypal regarding payment for 3 months subscriptin to Skype Inc.  The Email states that if you have not authorised this payment then please click on "cancel payment" button.

Please ignore this Email as I do not believe this is from Paypal as it does not state my name, ebay membership or Email address as the recipient - it simply welcomes the Paypal Client.

Also when I clicked on cancel payment it redirected me to another site which I immediately closed without entering any personal details.

Thanks Pam

[GeorgeWashngton]

Got the bogus email here today.  The price for 3 months of Skype is now up to 94.99 pounds (about  $150)! 

My PayPal account shows no charge has occurred. 

I have forwarded the email to both    spoof@paypal.com    and    spoof@paypal.co.uk

I did click the link at the bottom of that email, and wonder if I am going to have problems as a result.

At the bottom of the page it said,

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If you haven't authorized this charge, open a dispute at:
https://www.secure.paypal.co.uk/cgi-bin/webscr-cmd=_view-a-trans

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After I clicked, the resulting page said something like it no longer worked.  I don't want to try it again.

Looks like it could be a real PayPal link, so maybe I'm okay.

My question is, how do these people get your money or whatever?  I clicked the only link that was provided, and did not suffer any consequences that I can see.  Maybe that link had already been disabled prior to me clicking it?