About an hour ago I received an email purporting to be from PayPal informing me that I had sent a payment of $89.70 to eBay International AG (AU-AdCommerce-EOM@ibay.com). I was advised that it might take a few moments for the transaction to appear in the recent activity list in my Account Overview. The email was sent at 3.33pm and it is now 4.30pm but the transaction has not yet appeared as promised. I am invited to click a link to access my PayPal account, which I am reluctant to do. My last regular payment to eBay was on 4th March (for $9.33). I have not sold many items in the last couple of months and cannot see why I would need to pay eBay such a relatively large amount. I can find no way of contacting either PayPal or eBay as their help and contact facilities are entirely automated. Could this be a scam? I have attached the email in case it contains clues ( e.g. "believe in the message is spelled "belive")
Phishing scam, the link leads to a different site to steal your login details. Don't click on the link just delete the email.