You have changed your PayPal email address
Firstly – I hope you know that PayPal will NEVER address you as “Dear PayPal Customer”, they will always user your full, registered name.
Secondly – you are perfectly at liberty to add a new email address to your account. PayPal won’t email you and ask to confirm it to restore your account.
Thirdly – if that email address is a real one, it’s poor owner is going to find that she will have to change it as she will be flooded with spam.
DO NOT fill in the attached form – which will give this scammer all your credit card details.
Dear PayPal Customer,
You have added debra.middleton(@)btinternet.com as a new email address for your Paypal account.
If you did not authorize this change, check with family members and others who may have access to your account first. If you still feel that an unauthorized person has changed your email, submit the form attached to your email in order to keep your original email and restore your Paypal account.
NOTE: The form needs to be opened in a modern browser which has javascript enabled (ex: Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3, Safari 3, Opera 9)
Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience.
If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to temporary suspend your account.
Sincerely, PayPal Account Review Department.
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the “Help” link in the footer of any page.
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November 25, 2012 @ 10:49 pm
Hi, I also have just found this in my business gmail spam folder. I checked my paypal account to make sure and as an earlier post suggested I have now forwarded it to paypal.
November 19, 2012 @ 9:47 am
worrying as this was not detected by my spam filter and was addressed to my email address not dear customer, thanks for the confirmation here that this is a spoof
November 17, 2012 @ 6:19 pm
Thia just arrived in my Spam today, too. Thanks very much for the website.
November 17, 2012 @ 5:07 pm
I have just received this one and checked using email trace. This is the result and I wasn’t sure whether the email was real until I googled the Debra Middleton email address and it brought me to this page. Thanks for all the notes. I can safely delete it.
IP address: 81.18.23.141
Hostname: zelosvm471.netrics.ch
Country: Switzerland (CH)
ISP netrics hosting ag
Organization: netrics hosting ag
Latitude: 47.000000
Longitude: 8.000000
November 16, 2012 @ 11:31 pm
I’ve had this email today also and googled it which on finding these other posts confirmed it a scam as expected.
November 16, 2012 @ 5:14 pm
Thanks for this web site as i have also googled searched after recieving thie same email
November 16, 2012 @ 11:33 am
i recieve this too – paypal is a .com address – these fin a$$holes need to be stopped – send these emials to spoof@paypal.com
thanks
chris
November 15, 2012 @ 8:59 pm
I got the Debra Middleton thing today. It just called me Dear Paypal customer…… not my name.
But what is clever, is that it appears to come from the correct service@paypal.co.uk email address just like my normal paypal emails……. how do they do that???
November 8, 2012 @ 12:05 am
My dad has just had the exact same email. I googled the content and found this page. Earlier today he also had a call from “microsoft tech dept” which we also know was a hoax to give them remote access into my dads computer. These people need stopping.