new paypal email phising scam

[JhnStcks]

Just received this emal from "paypal".

I know it isnt really as I dont have a paypal account on this email address.

The email also contains an attachment, i didnt download it as it probabaly contains virus's or looking at the email some kind of trojan transferred by javascript.

Dear PayPal customer,

During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedure we have detected a slight error in your billing information.

This might be due to the following reasons:

1. A recent change in your personal information (ie. change of address, email address)

2. An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due to an internal error within our systems.

Please verify your information. To do this we have attached a form to this email. Please download the form and follow the instructions on your screen. NOTE: The form needs to be opened in a modern browser which has javascript enabled (ex: Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3, Safari 3, Opera 9)

We are requesting this information to verify and protect your identity. This is in order to prevent the illegal activity of PayPal accounts.

Please do not reply to this email.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Sincerely,
PayPal Security Team.

[vittu]

I got one of these today aswell,

deleted it straight away,

as paypal aways say, they never ask for login details or passwords via emails,
same with emails that look like they have came from a bank, I keep getting emails that look like they have came from HSBC, same again, deleted straight away

[teenymunchkins]

I get sick of getting these emails ... straight into the junk bin 

[gordym75]

Yep they're downright annoying these emails. Most are nonsense but you get the odd gem which could easily fool the unsuspecting. Good thing about hotmail is it allows you to report phishing scams with one clcik.

[jamhun]

All you need to remember is that, PayPal will always address you by name, and not, dear paypal customer,



James

[JhnStcks]

All you need to remember is that, PayPal will always address you by name, and not, dear paypal customer,

Yes thats what alerted me as soon as I saw the email.

[wringle]

I contacted paypal, since it is a sevice I have NEVER used, and they advised me that this is a phishilng scam, and advised me to forward it to spoof@paypal.com, delete the message & block it. I did this yesterday, and this morning i have 3 more of them as new messages. I checked & they are definately blocked. Why am I still getting this if I have blocked the sender. I feel violated and am thingking of cancelling my yahoo account due to being harrassed by these scam artists. What is a stronger method I can use to deter this?

[Andy c]

because every time they send an email they change a letter or number so it's a new address every time .... ask me I know I've got some pharmacy crap every day and have tried blocking them for a bout 3 weeks ...I've given up ..although you can block message rules if they use the same thing every time   

[scotserve]

because every time they send an email they change a letter or number so it's a new address every time .... ask me I know I've got some pharmacy crap every day and have tried blocking them for a bout 3 weeks ...I've given up ..although you can block message rules if they use the same thing every time   

Andy look to using your domain as the email address we manage to block around 99.9% of this shi*