Virus E-Mail->> Attention! Your PayPal account has been limited!

[Richard Cranium]

I clicked the link and my Opera Anti-Virus page opened up with a Red Warning page.

Here's the e-mail and the link to the bogus page.

WARNING, BOGUS LINK !! ->>
Login - PayPal

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Attention! Your PayPal account has been limited!

Information Regarding Your account:
Dear PayPal Member:

Attention! Your PayPal account has been limited!

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system.We recently contacted you after noticing an issue on your account.We requested information from you for the following reason:

Our system detected unusual charges to a credit card linked to your PayPal account.

Reference Number: PP-259-187-991

This is the Last reminder to log in to PayPal as soon as possible. Once you log in, you will be provided with steps to restore your account access.

Once you log in, you will be provided with steps to restore your account access. We appreciate your understanding as we work to ensure account safety.

Click here to activate your account <-- Link Deleted !

We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologise for any inconvenience..

Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department

Anyone else heard of this ?
BTW, they also have "Valid" paypal links on the right side of the message

Thx
Doc

[RicheemxX]

Just another phishing scam they are quite common place. I get a few every week and usually ignore them. PayPal rarely sends you emails with actual links and rarely do they ever send you anything like this.