BEWARE!! new paypal phishing emails

[madasahatter]

Just thought I'd warn people. Today I got an email claiming to be from paypal telling me that they had limited my account because it had noted unusual charges to my credit card. It asked me to log in to my paypal account by following the link. It looked very authentic with security reminders about not divulging passwords etc down the right hand side.
Thankfully I'm pretty clued up on email scams and know not to log in to any bank/paypal/other financial account via links in an email or by copying and pasting web links and I have forwarded the email to paypals fraud/scam dept. I have also changed my paypal password and security questions.

[sarah707]

It is scary how many people panic and simply follow the links.

Thank you for letting us know about this one!

[Trouble]

thank you

[Carpet Monkeys]

My DH had this email, and he phoned paypal direct .... it all appeared in order. We didn't click on the links on the email though, we went through our usual link into paypal.

[TheBTeam]

I had this one a while ago and thought oh well if there is a problem I will find it when i next try to pay something.

Now feel guilty cos didn't think to mention it on here , I was astute enough to not click on the link, but not clued up to a full scam iyswim!

[Annie_T]

ive had these in past .. i just delete them

[Mollymop]

Thanks

I have gotten many of these emails in the past, I usually find them in my spam filter.

I forward them on to paypal so they can look at them. x