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Originally Posted by Chris_Royle I got this email from paypal the other day: Dear PayPal Member, It has come to our attention that your PayPal Billing Information records are out of date. That requires you to update the Billing Information. Please update your records in maximum 12 hours otherwise your account will be suspended. Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems. Please update your billing records: I haven't replied. Is this real or fake?

Almost certainly fake - had something very similar a couple of years ago. I very nearly fell for it because by coincidence I was trying to sort out a complicated Pay Pal transaction at the same time (as Drewy says its a numbers game thing). Like Paul I clicked on the hyper link which took me to a spoof (very convincing due to copied graphics etc) web page - it was only when the details page asked for mothers maiden name and national insurance number that I twigged. I checked it out and the IP traced back to an internet cafe in Korea - the site was taken down a few houurs later.

As others have said no legit bank or institution would ask for sensitive info by e-mail.