Paypal e-mail - fraudulent??

[Diege]

I've just received an e-mail apparently from paypal telling me that I have sent a payment for $450 dollars for a sound system to someone in the states. Now I'm assuming this is a fraud, as there are instructions how to cancel the transaction if I didn't authorise it (after I've supplied my aqccount details for security reasons ), and there is also no record of it in my paypal account.
Just wondering if anyone else has receivced these sorts of e-mails?

you can report it direct to paypal, and then they will contact you to verify whether or not it is dodgy.Go to the payapl website and there should be instructions.

Sounds a bit to me.

Is it addressed to you by name, or "dear paypal user" (or thereabouts)?

It certainly sounds like a scam and if it doesn't have your name on, just delete it

id get the phone number off the paypal website and give them a ring

forward to [email protected] they'll let you know if it's ok or not. Don't click on any links.

I've had several of these, including the one you describe. It's a load of old codswallop. Just delete it.

nah, it's just the equivalent of those "in order to continue to use your internet banking log in here and give us all your security information" emails (I saw one of those once which insisted you would be stuffed unless you gave them your PIN )

Thanks so much everyone . it's addressed to 'Dear User'so probably a scam. Paypal lines are closed now till morning, but will give them a ring tomorrow. I've not clicked on anything though I can see why someone would in a panic...that's the idea I suppose .

I get them all the time - usually from paypaI.com

yeah i get them a lot too.
you forward anything suspicious to [email protected] (i think) and they reply to confirm its not them. you did the right thing not answering.

someone actually did hack my paypal tuther day. sent 100Euros to skype
i only know about it coz when i logged in to pay for something, i had to go through all these security things... was well suspicious but it was actually paypal doing it. and it turns out they know a 3rd party did it and theyd alreadt reversed it (was on the account overview page)
dodgy, huh?!

It is a scam. You can report it to ebay. I delete them and then I go into my ebay account and look at messages there, it it is genuine it will be in your message folder but that sort never is.