Is this paypal message legit

Yep, its a scam. PayPal is one of the largest payment providers on the internet, I'm almost 100% positive that even if they did have a form email like this -- it wouldn't have any spelling errors. Plus, why would PayPal need to confirm your account?

It's a scam. Depending on what you use for email, if you hover your cursor on the link the status bar will often show the URL that's hiding behind link text. It won't be to Paypal.

Having said that, don't get fooled if you see "paypal" as part of the address. A lot of these phishing probes create a subdomain that they name after Paypal. Always look to the item immediately to the left of the .com.

For example, in this URL:

http : //www.paypal.customer343du8.com

To an uninformed person it looks like a Paypal address and a reference to a specific customer, but the domain is really "customer343du8.com" and "paypal" is a sub-domain on that account, so it has absolutely nothing to do with Paypal.

Some of these criminals tack on a half dozen sub-domains using numbers, letters and certain words to either make it look more official or to make it confusing.

You won't fall for it though, because you know better!

Clicking on it is a bad idea. There could be a virus, key logger, or something else malicious on the other end. A phony site could also show a Paypal address in the address bar, with a look-alike site, and fool even experienced web users.

You can also forward this to paypal so that they know someone is trying to phish using their name.

yep a scam, if you are ever uncertain then just phone them up to double check.

Paypal knows your name - it doesn't send "dear member" messages...

And yes, send it to their fraud department, I always do and was happy to see some websites gone from the web

I did as everyone suggested and forward it to PayPal. I was too chicken to click the link.
Thanks to all who responded

I just wanted to add I'm pretty b**tchy when it comes to stuff like that I forward it to the FBI too. Glad you forwarded it to paypal though they will appreciate it :-)

Hi Rhonda,

Yes, I do agree with reporting this off to PayPal support because they're the ones who could absolutely help you out. Also, always take note of the email that's being used by PayPal support to you. There are many users nowadays would would be using PayPal support as their usernames to frighten users and make money. So be sure to whitelist the email from PayPal when you started registering with them so you'll never get lost.

I hope this helps.

I think it is not a secure email.

Never click ant link in such emails.

Of course it's a phishing attempt. It is not even written in proper English.

PayPal's fraud department want folks to forward these scams to them at

spoof@paypal.com

This address is on their website.

:-Don

woah watch out, these days scammers are trying to be more ingenious than ever so definetly try and check the url

Just delete it and forget about it. Sometimes I like to respond in oh so fun ways with drawings of spiders

Always open paypal by going to their site and never by clicking a URL.

A couple of months back, I got a message from paypal (that is upon entering their site) to change my password and re-enter my bank accounts. I followed the instructions and it was fine. BTW, it was written in good english.

Another you can look at is if it is https and not http. Sites like paypal
always have https instead of http.

So if it is some scammer it would be http most of the times.

Don't click this mark it as a phishing scam..if you scroll over the hyperlink it will likely say some fake website that is not paypal . com

I wish there was an internet police or something but there's not so we gotta be careful