A new email is circulating to scam you, supposedly from PayPal. If you receive an email like the one in the image above, THAT EMAIL IS NOT FROM PAYPAL. Please, don´t ever execute the button in blue, this is how you are going to send information to the hacker. I´ve written about this before, and you can find other examples of scam emails in the DigiXshare archives, organizing your search by Crimes. How could a PayPal email be differentiated from another that is a possible scam? Let´s start by analyzing the obvious defects that can be seen in this same that appears in the image above. • The first reason to be suspicious is the icon of the alleged issuer. It is not the official PayPal logo. • The other obvious reason to be suspicious is that they don´t use your personal name. Instead, it refers to you with your email, instead of using your personal name, or in this case, the phrase: Dear customer. • Also, when you click on the issuer, Yahoo shows you which email address it comes from. With the email address shown, if you have skills, you can even trace the IP of the issuer. But this is better left to the authorities. • Another obvious error that you can see in the image is that the sender´s business address does not appear in the footer, which by law must be shown. • Another defect is that the button to unsubscribe does not appear. • The button to go to the website is not correct, either. • It does not have, nor the date when the sender is writing the message. It only appears the Yahoo data. These are some of the Paypal guidelines to follow when you receive a suspicious email: Impersonal, generic greetings are used; such as Dear user or Dear [your email address]. Emails from PayPal will always address you by your first and last names or by your business name. We never say things like Dear user or Hello PayPal member. If there´s a link in an email, always check it before you click. A link could look perfectly safe like www.paypal.com/SpecialOffers. Make sure to move your mouse over the link to see the true destination. If you aren’t certain, don’t click on the link. Just visiting a bad website could infect your machine. For more details about other possible scams, go to the PayPal website, locate Help and type, for example: scam. PayPal will show you much more information about how to avoid the most common scams. This is an email, quite cheeky, that does not have the slightest bit of professionalism. Source: PayPal.