Dodgy or legit?

[Woodsey]

I received this email from paypal and it looks fairly legit for something I have not bought. Is this a scam to get me to go to a dodgy website and give them my login info or is it legit? This is the text but the actual email is paypal branded and looks pretty legit?


Dear member,

This email confirms that you have paid orders@dell.com $699.99 USD using PayPal.

This credit card transaction will appear on your bill as "PAYPAL *DELL INC".


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Payment Details


Purchased From:Dell.Inc

Item # Item Title Quantity Price Subtotal
250016390196 New Dell 6400 e1505 Intel Core Duo 1.66GHz 1GB Laptop 1 $669.95 USD $669.95 USD
 

Shipping & Handling via USPS First Class Mail to 154XX
(includes any seller handling fees) $19.16 USD
Shipping Insurance (optional): --
Sales Tax (6.000% inPA) :  $10.88 USD
 
Total: $699.99 USD
Note:Thank you!


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Shipping Information


Shipping Info:  Wayne E Bakewell
16 elm st
Brownsville, PA 15417
United States
 
Address Status:  Confirmed 

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If you have questions about the shipping and tracking of your purchased item or service, please contact the seller orders@dell.com.

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Do you confirm this transaction?

If this transaction was not made by you please immediately take the following steps:

Login to your account by clicking on the link below
Provide requested information to ensure you are the owner of the account
Find this transaction in HISTORY and click 'Cancel Transaction'

 CANCEL TRANSACTION!
 

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team


Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

PayPal Email ID PP843

[marcro]

Forward it to paypal customer services and ask them about it.

[Bongo]

I'd bet the link doesn't actually goto paypal.com...

[Jon MW]

dodgy - to give you an idea about how widely these have been sent out. There are 7 people in my company and 5 of them have received this email.

[FlyingPig]

Log into your PAYPAL account by going to the web page...

DONT CLICK ON ANY LINKS!!

Then check your history, if someone has bought it through your paypal account it will sho up there....

[Ironside]

if pay pal contact you they will allways use your FULL name in the email not a nickname etc

forward the email fraud@paypal.com

[Woodsey]

ok guys ty for that I thought it was dodgy even though it looked pretty genuine. Have passed it onto paypal security.

[TightPaulFolds]

Definitely dodgy. Do not click on the link. Put your mouse cursor over the link (without clicking it). In the bottom of your screen you will see a little bit of text suddenly say 'javascript' etc etc, it is running a redirect script, not activating a hyperlink. Scam scam scam. Forward to paypal then delete.
Also, if possible, change your paypal active email address to a new one, the one you have is compromised, probably through ebay activity.

[4KingNutz]

Ive had one 2 m8 from LAPTOPSUK INC saying i have paid $598 dollors for a laptop funny thing is i dont even have a paypal account but ive seen a forums where hunderds of people are getting them if dogy paypal have said so just dont reply just delete it and forget about it.






   Nutzzzz