Fraud

I find some of the scams becoming increasingly convincing.

Here's not a very good example :

In an email coming in as:

    From:     PayPal
    Subject:     Important Please Read
    Date:     6 July 2011 09:52:20 GMT+01:00

Dear valued PayPaI« Customer,

We need your help resolving an issue with your account. To give us time to work together on this, we've temporarily limited what you can do with your account until the issue is resolved.

What's the problem?

We noticed some unusual activity on the credit card linked to your PayPaI« account.

Case ID Number: PP-001-212-055-698

How you can help

It's usually pretty easy to take care of things like this. Most of the time, we just need a little more information about your account.

To help us with this and to find out what you can and can't do with your account until the issue is resolved, please proceed to our secure webform by clicking here.

Thanks,
PayPaI«

When the "clicking here" leads to an address other than Paypal which makes it easy to spot.

In practice I never respond to any request no matter how convincing but choose to initiate the whole process of contacting myself - that is if I think there may be a problem.