I just got a phishing e-mail from "paypal"

[Shoonra]

40. Thanks for the warning! I get a lot of these.

I get a lot of these scam messages, not just from Paypal (I do not have an account) but pretending to be from a variety of big companies that lots of people would do business with; for example, Chase Bank, Bank of America, American Express, Amazon, etc.

The scammers are playing the odds that some recipients will be clients of the pretended source and fall for the "your account is frozen" message. The artwork is impressive and authentic looking, but sometimes the proofreading of the message is defective.


The offered link back to the company is also fake and sends you to the scammer's phishing questionnaire where they will want your name, account number, possibly your SSN, and maybe instruct you to send money (online or maybe by snailmail) someplace (not to the pretended company's real office address).

Usually these scam emails do not address you by your real name nor even by your email handle. Ignore these messages, do not even click the link. If you had a real problem with the real company, the real company would address you by your proper name and possibly include your snailmail address or some other authentic personal info to show they really have you as a customer.