I also received a suspicious e-mail from "PayPal Customer Support" with an e-mail address "staff@paypal.com" on September 6, 2002 titled PAYPAL ACCOUNT LOST "informing" me there was a problem with my PayPal account. The body of the e-mail said:
Welcome PAYPAL member, I am sorry to inform you that 300,000 of our data base has lost due to some technical problems. your account was one from those lost database so , we were temporarily unable to verify it as a registered user. Approximately 90 seconds ago, your verification was made void by loss of data. Now, due to PAYPAL verification protocol, it is mandatory for us to re-verify you. Please verify it by completing the form below. PAYPAL advises everyone to fill out the information so we won't have any misconfigured billing problems or termination of your PAYPAL account. Upon submitting your request you will not have to worry about the security of your account, and your information will be updated and stored again . please complete the form within 2 minutes of reading this.
Thank you.
PAYPAL STAFF
It then had a link, which I did NOT go to. I instead immediately contacted PayPal. I received a response back from them that they would look into it. I haven't heard anything since from them so not sure how far the investigation went, but I have saved the questionable e-mail just in case. Just the wording tipped me off it wasn't legitimate.