Paypal scam

[Radnor Bandit (Ian)]

Just a quick heads up peeps, I had a scam email from what looks like paypal to the effect my account has been temporary frozen due to heartbleed bug, and it says click on the link to rectify it.
DO NOT OPEN IT
Instead you should forward the mail to  spoof@paypal.co.uk  
This spoof mail was addressed , "hello dear customer"
All emails from paypal are addressed to the account holder by name and do not contain links.

[roaljodaka]

I had the same last year!!, and the actual paypal page was almost identical, they wanted my password, they said my account was frozen due to a lot of people trying to access it. Grrrrrrrrrrr

[jcb (THE THIMBLE) jones]

thanks ian for the heads up 

[Val Beechey]

We've had the same with BT Norwich Union, Nat West and a string of others.  Joke on them is we don't even have an account with any of these except BT.

We've made a rule,   If you get an E.Mail from anyone you do have an account with,  DONT open it, go to the official site and check it out there or phone them.   Same applies to phone calls, and don't phone immediately, leave it for an hour.

Val

[NEMESIS]

Nice one R/B, thnx for heads up.
  Good advice there VAL,  I never thought about the phone call scams...  Cheers.

[troutmasterfunk]

Thanks for sharing :-)

[Napoleon]

  same for me yesterday

[Chef Geoff]

I get them all the time from either a bank or paypal/ebay and I now always check the email address from where it's come from which is usually a dead give away

[galoshers]

the 419 gentlemen are at work all over the net

[grego]

Thanks for the warning.

[geordiefred]

I get them all the times and don't even have a Paypal account, the wife has and she also gets them but she logs into Paypal from a different source and they are always scams. 

[dances with badgers]

paypal are wonkers and fleabay