I got an email from paypal in my spam

Dear PayPal User


Dear PayPal User, For security purposes your account has been randomly chosen for verification.
To verify your account information we are asking you to provide us with all the data we are requesting.
Otherwise we will not be able to verify your identity and access to your account will be denied by our security department at once :


https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_verify-run

To make sure you can use your PayPal account the next time you make a purchase,
all you need to do is confirm or not your email address.
If your email program has problems with hypertext links,
you may also confirm your email address by logging in to your account.

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance,
log in to your PayPal account and click thec Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.


PayPal Email ID PP007

SHOULD I CONSIDER THIS AS SPAM OR THEY REALLY ARE ASKING FOR VERFICIATION

 

lol look at the paypal email id PP007 did bond start working for paypal ? offcource its a spam mail u don't need to worry just delete it.

 

i really got scared for one second.

 

And Paypal will ALWAYS address you by your name, not 'Paypal User'.

 

i got that kind of e-mail too... but I deleted it because it was in my spam box...

 

It would be very rare for PayPal to send an email out to a user. They would NEVER have you click on a link from that email to do ANYTHING. If there was something wrong with your account, they would instruct you to go to PayPal's website and log in, but they are smart enough (now) to never include a link to it.

Most companies realize this now, although you still find some small town banks that send out emails with instructions and live links to their site. They need to know that this is exactly what a phishing email would look like, and by sending out emails like that they are increasing the chances that their customers will get tricked by a phisher.

 

Thanks for this info.. rep added

 

These types of emails also comes to my non-paypal inbox.

 

just forwarded the email to them

 

Humm, there were the same e-mails for e-gold. I wonder how much people they scammed

 

Just always make sure you go to the website https://www.paypal.com - if Paypal needs anything from you, it will be there when you sign in.

In outlook, you can right click on the hyperlink and choose copy. And then you can paste that into Notepad - chances are it was not going to Paypal's website

 

Ya i complelty agree with him becoz paypal has clearly mentioned and also other companies doing payment transfers that u must use https:// and not http:// and also that do not click on any link in ur email but always login into ur account and what ever u r required do it from there,it wil be mentioned if u r requested to do anything.So never click on any link in ur email and also as it was in spam box then its clearly a sapming mail..And let me clear u by showing u the threa which is being started against a person doing these kind of jobs.I mean fake emails and paypal i.d hacker.He is one of the spammer ??

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=428173