Today I received THREE of these emails. But something looked suspicious about them. Upon closer inspection, I noticed the sender's email (lithium dot com).
That didn't look like PayPal's normal return address.
Rather than take a chance, I forwarded them all to spoof@paypal.com.
@wiseowlbookshop wrote:
One of several "Paypal" emails I have received in the past month.
This looks very official. But when I accessed Paypal directly to find a contact number for error resolution, it is given as <removed>. The email gives such a number as <removed>. Searching the Paypal website for that number produces several results, only one of which, on the page, does this number appear. That page answers the question "I am unable to confirm my account ownership. What do I do?
There are a number of people at paypal-community concerned about this email. At a time when phishing emails are a regular occurence, Paypal should make sure that information is uniform across all of its media.
As the number doea appear to be a paypal number, it appears as though the email is legitimate, however...
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