This has been going on for about 2 years and getting worse. If you get an email telling you to log into your paypal account via email, DO NOT click on the link in the email! Most likely this is a scam. The email will appear to come from paypal due to forged headers. However, if you view the source of the email you will see that the link does not go to paypal but some other site like paypal.domain.com (as a subdomain) or paypal(s).com (with an s) or paypa(1).com (with a 1) or some other variation of the paypal domain. What is ironic is that paypal sends it's lawyers after us on our paypal domains (and loses!) but they don't seem to be doing anything about these scammers.
To the point: IF you have a paypal account, ONLY log into it by typing into your browser window www.paypal.com. If you are on a website and click on a link, be SURE the address is really paypal's in the address bar. Otherwise you will be giving your paypal account information to a scammer.
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