Information Regarding Your account: Dear PayPal Member! Attention! Your PayPal account has been violated! Someone with ip address xxxxxxxxxxxxxx tried to access your personal account! Please click the link below and enter your account information to confirm that you are not currently away. You have 3 days to confirm account information or your account will be locked. Click here to activate your account You can also confirm your email address by logging into your PayPal account at http://paypal.com/. Click on the "Confirm email" link in the Activate Account box and then enter this confirmation number: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thank you for using PayPal! The PayPal Team   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the footer of any page. PayPal Email ID PP059

Scam. Don't log in through the link provided whatever you do.

I get that one about once a week. I don't have a Paypal acc't.

send to [email protected]

scam.  my dad told me this... anything that doesn't say "Dear <your name here>," is a scam.  Ebay and Paypal always use your name when referring to you in their emails.

always be wary though... something with your name in it could be fraudulent too - it's just guaranteed if your name is missing.

It's a scam called Phishing:

(fish´ing) (n.) The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The e-mail directs the user to visit a Web site where they are asked to update personal information, such as passwords and credit card, social security, and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already has. The Web site, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the user’s information.

From: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/p/phishing.html

Expose the full headers of the e-mail:

http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/19.html

and forward the e-mail with full exposed headers to your Internet Service Provider's Abuse department.  This will help to track and stop the "phisher".

Run Forest..Run!!!

Thanks, I figured it was a scam.

I feel like I have been violated by that email

Log into your account (not from that link) and see if you have any messages, any emails they send you will also go to your message inbox on your acct. if you didn't get one RUN!!!!

I get at least several of those for PalPal and eBay each month. SCAM

One of my roommates went for a similar one (but for eBay), but fortunately he realized it and got on and changed his password immediately and saved himself.

run away, run away!

If ya have to ask.......

I get the paypal and earthlink scam crap every week.

I get crap all the time warning me my msn account will be terminated unless I update such and such, same with my cable, cell phone, several credit cards, etc..  

My general reaction is "good, go ahead and cancel the stinkin' thing", but alas, they never do.

Bottom line is I don't have any service that is so important that I can't live without it.

I get the same thing, and I don't have, nor have I ever used a PayPal account,

Paypal would NEVER send you that type of warning through email only. If they did actually send it to you, it would have your first name somewhere in it and probably wouldn't directly link you to their site.