Paypal mandatory account update

[carolmarlene]

Anyone else get this message supposedly from Paypal?

Dear Account Holder,

We are currently engaged in account maintenance service.

As a subscriber, you are required to confirm your continued membership.

Failure to confirm your continued membership will lead to service suspension.

Download attached file Login and confirm in one simple step.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a compulsory measure.

Thank you

Admin

Paypal Admin Update®

Copyright © 2012

I think it's a hoax. Am I right?

[carolmarlene]

Well, I was just goggling this and it seems that it most certainly is a phishing scam. Advise was to check the address that it was sent from and if it's not the address that you dealt with when opening your account then simply delecte. Under no circumstances should you open a link in one of these e mails. Never fill anything out or add your username or password. I guess most people know this. I am just passing this along in case anyone else has received this e mail. I received it twice in the same evening.

[Julie Harris]

Paypal ALWAYS address you by your name, never by Dear Account Holder. It's definately dodgy. Always best to log in to Paypal on their home site, never by following any link.
Julie.

[Julie Harris]

Oops, spelling! Definitely dodgy...

[jenniferp]

I've received that one before.

It is a scam.

NO financial organization will ever ask you to 'download the attached file', for starters. (Said file is probably a trojan).

Also.

PayPal, on the whole, has people who 'can has grammar' .