Hi,
I am becoming increasingly concerned about the number of scam emails I am receiving from supposedly Pay Pal, these have been for a number of reasons, unusual activity on account seems to be a favourite, however I have also received Pay Pal receipts for transactions for lots of money which are not mine.
At first I was a little taken in and then remembered that the email the scams were coming from was not the email address I use for my paypal account, a quick check on my account proved to me it was a scam.
Make no mistake these emails look very genuine, so be aware, do what I do, use another email address for your paypal and so if it comes to the wrong one you can certainly know that it is a scam, also if you get them on the address that you do use for paypal it will make you more aware.
If you ever get one of these scams, the best thing to do is to log on to paypal and look for the transaction, or look to see if your account has been 'frozen' when it isn't you know it's a scam.
Unfortunately I have only just seen that I should have forwarded the emails to paypal, I didn't know this and just marked it as a phishing scam, I will forward them next time. Just be aware of all this and you should be fine.
