Update Personal Information - Scam
Allegedly from: PayPal, but really came from staffaccount2.com
Update Personal Information
Dear Valued Customer,
It has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take a few minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records, you will not run into any problems in the future with the online service.
However, failure to update your records could result in account suspension. Please update your records as soon as possible.
To update your account information, please download and open the attachment file that we sent via this email, and simply open it with your web browser.
Once you have updated your account records, any activities going through your account will no longer be interrupted.
We apologize for any inconvenience. Please understand that this procedure is to keep you and your account in a protected state.
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