[Neil]

Just for info.

For the last few days I've been receiving 1 or 2 emails daily purporting to be from PayPal. I get very little real spam so this is unusual. I don't know if it's just me or if others have been receiving them as well.

They look very official, none of the usual spelling mistakes and are using exact copies of genuine PayPal emails.

They have informed me of items I've purchased which I haven't and my account being suspended. They always have a log in button to click.

What normally happens is if you click the button you're taken to a genuine looking page, you enter your username and password and it takes you to the genuine PayPal page. You assume you entered it wrong and try again and it works because you're now on the real PayPal page.

What actually happened is that you just gave your username and password to the scammers who redirected you to the real PayPal page so you didn't realise it was all a con.

Please never log into PayPal from a link in an email or online. Always type the paypal address into your web browser so you know you are on the genuine page.