I got an email that appeared to come from PayPal asking me to verify my credit card info. The very tricky part is that the text of the message is actually an embedded image of text. This allows the scammer to make the entire message a link to his look alike site to get your username and password. Look on your status line for where the link actually takes you. The URL starts with
http://www.paypal.com but has an @ in the middle that redirects you to the scammer. An @ in a Web address URL is a sure sign of a scam.
Two things are wrong here. PayPal always uses
https://www.paypal.com to start their link URL. And it is good practice to never click on an email to a site that requires a password. Go to the correct site you have bookmarked, make sure it is right, then put in your password.
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Jim "Oldgas" PottsYour host and moderator