paypal phish

I had it and opened it up but didn't click a link am i OK???

I'm with John W, the one I got was genuine it names me directly and then goes....

We are constantly working to make PayPal safer, simpler and more=20
convenient for our customers=2E This means that from time to time=20
we have to make changes to the terms of our User Agreement=2E=20

To make sure you are always informed we have posted recent=20
updates on our website=2E To view these updates:=20

etc.

If in doubt I normally check the source of the email (ctrl+U in Thunderbird) and this one is genuine.

I got this message over night and it looked very genuine....but so did my wife and she does NOT have a Paypal account...(She prefers to spend my money!)

I haven't got one, but if any of you do get emails like
that, make sure that you do not click any links that they
offer you, or enter any personal details (unless you are
absolutely certain that the website is genuine).
Generally, if the part of the site that requires you to
enter your details has 'https' at the beginning of the
URL it should be safe.
Also, if you right click on the email, select options and
read the section titled 'Internet Headers' it should tell
you the email address that the email was sent from, and
more importantly, the IP address(Works with MS Outlook,
not sure about other applications-it is probably a
similar process though). If you run that through an IP
locator (Google it) you can work out where the email was
sent from (providing that the sender wasn't using a
proxy, but even if they were it still probably wouldn't
add up)and therefore, deduce how likely it is to be
genuine.

Edited by Mister Nick

Originally posted by MerlinMags Whatever email you get, from Paypal or your bank, if you want to be safe: IGNORE links in the email. Log into your account as you would do normally, by typing the address in yourself, and that way you should be ok. Remember that for bank accounts where they usually ask you for "digit two of your passcode" etc, they will NEVER ask you for your entire password online or on the phone.

Yep thats the advice.

I always ignore them, delete them and if I am interested I will call them up to check.

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