People attempting to steal your personal information may try by sending you emails that look like they are from legitimate websites you may have accounts on.

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There are multiple things to look at if you are curious about the legitimacy of an email. There are occasionally misspellings in emails and grammatical errors.

In this email the footer of the email is suspicious because PayPal is an American company. And even though they have international offices, this is a suspicious footer.


Screen Shot 2017-01-11 at 4.59.26 PM copyContinuing to examine this email, you will notice when you inspect the email address sent from it is not from PayPal.
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Hovering over the "Log in to PayPal" link will show you it is not pointing to PayPal.

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If you are still concerned that it may be a legitimate concern you can go to the company's website by typing in the address in your web browser and logging in directly, not by clicking the link in the email.