I just received this today. It looked suspicious so when I HOVERED (not clicked) the blue paypal-looking button I noticed in the link preview in my browser that it would have sent me to a page using a redirect link, not a paypal.com page. This is flag number 1. Flag number 2 happened when I zoomed in on the paypal logo. Even withouth zooming in I could see it was "grainy" and faked. When I zoomed in more I could see that it was carelessly cropped or clipped. I also noticed that the overall image resolution was extremely low quality. A graphic designer incharge of a company's branding logo would never let any of this slide of email and/or letter head communication. (See embedded image below) Flag 3 was the sender's email address that had the abbreviation "intl" at the start of the domain instead of just paypal.com. This doesn't necessarily mean anything suspicious because sometimes email addresses have multiple partitions separated by periods, but still it was added to my mental list of "phishing look-fors." Flag 4 didn't actually happen and is one that I have come upon to rely -- spelling and grammatical errors. This is usually the big tip-off; however, in this email there were none. This is the reason I took to the web to see if anyone else had a similar problem. Needless to say, I had enough suspicions. Add to this list the context of this email I got: it's supposedly from paypal which is very secure; why does it need to confirm my identity if it emailed me and knows who I am; this was received over a major shopping weekend in the States, Black Friday. Best of luck to your situation. I just wanted to share some of the steps I use to look for stuff like this when it is slung my way if others might find it helpful.
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