James Slick Loc: Pittsburgh,PA

Sometimes just clicking on a link in a suspicious email can download a virus or malware (keyloggers, etc...) If you get an email with bad spelling and/or grammar from (supposedly​) a reputable company, DON'T click on any links.

nikon_jon Loc: Northeast Arkansas

Go to their website. If there is any problem with your account you will find out there and you can be sure it isn't a scam of some sort. I get crap like that quite frequently and just block them and mark them for the spam file.

David Kay Loc: Arlington Heights IL

Better yet, forward the email to paypal security.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Check the from address on the email. It should be the return address to paypal.com. If it isn't, that's a sure sign of a scam. A word of caution, though, email addresses can be spoofed. Thus, it is best to read through the header file of the email and see where it really came from.
--Bob

Ratta Loc: California

Several months ago I received a phishing enquiry from my bank asking that I verify my card, password, etc. because they suspected that my account had been illegally accessed.
I gave them the wrong password and wrong PIN and thanked them for their concern.
The next day I received a notice that an attempt was blocked to access my account from an ATM across the country. The couple was arrested as they were photographed when they were trying to access the account. A little misinformation goes a long way. I'm always very "helpful" to these people.

AZ Dog Loc: Peoria, AZ

Here is a helpful hint. before you open a suspicious Email, move your curser over the party that it is supposedly from. You will see addresses like you have never seen before. Many of them will end with a 2 character address designating the originating country, like uk for England.

AZ Dog Loc: Peoria, AZ

Here is a helpful hint, place your curser over the party that it came from. You will see addresses like you have never seen before. Many of them ending with a two letter code for originating country, like uk for England and I think I have seen ng for Nigeria.

AZ Dog Loc: Peoria, AZ

Here is a helpful hint. If you do not know who it came, friend, etc, place your curser over the address to get who it actually came from. You will see some very strange addresses come up. Many of them ending with a two letter country code like uk for England. Do this before you open the Email and you will never go wrong.

CaptainBobBrown

Another common one which shocked me to learn that a neighbor had fallen for:
Pop-up screen after visiting an infected web site (Home Depot, Lowes, etc.) locks out keyboard and mouse input to your browser with warning that computer is infected and you must call a specified number.
A neighbor did that and, of course, gave them enough info to get onto his machine, activate his Windows fire-wall, and generally suck everything they wanted from it before "removing" the infection once he gave all his credit card info to pay for a 5 year subscription to their remote protection services.
The heavily accented Indian claimed to be from some legitimate "computer protection" company so afterwards neighbor googled the company name and found a legitimate company's web site. But, he didn't google the 'company name' with word "scam" so he didn't see the hundreds of references to the scam these fraudsters perpetrate where they get the money and then never give any service. The unwary like my neighbor panic when they find that their browsers no longer respond and don't think to go to another machine to look up how to get rid of the annoying pop-up and get control of their machine back. The scam is a clever one.

The next day after victim "subscribes" to their "service" and gets control back the perps send another email with fake legitimate company logo thanking for the business and reassurance that they'll stay in touch to render continuing protection service. Of course, if victim does hear from them again it will be only when another lock-out pop-up screen is encountered and he calls the specified number.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I believe this method is client specific. It may not work with every email client in use. Learning how to read through an email header file would be more accurate and not client specific.
--Bob

ka3ciz11 Loc: Maryland

It is a scam. Ignore it, but report it to the authorities and Pay Pal.

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

How did you contact Paypal? Through a phone number provided in the email?

Brasspounder001 Loc: Erewhon

Never, EVER, send any important personal information by email to ANYBODY, including government agencies. Email is not secure, even when using encryption. Simply ignore these phishing scams. You can in most cases simply forward the email to the company it says it is, and they have experts that can analyse the phishing email to extract IP addresses and other pertinent information to determine its origin. A bank, Paypal, government agencies, etc will NEVER send you an email requesting information or asking you to clink on a link.

Brasspounder001 Loc: Erewhon

These Indian computer scam artists get the unsuspecting person on the phone to switch on their computer then download a piece of software that lets them take control of the victim's computer. But stop and think, if they don't have access to your computer, how do you know it's infected? After getting the victim to type something in a window in this software, the perp has full control of your computer and then demands a credit card number to "fix" the problem.

Flyerace Loc: Mt Pleasant, WI

The best thing to do is:
1. Remove the email from your computer
2. Run your anti-virus or anti-malware software (both preferably)
3. Report this activity to Paypal.

I have been receiving calls from "Marriott". I haven't stayed there recently and knew it was a scam.
I notified Marriott and they had not been notified previously.
These scams are getting sophisticated in appearance, but the grammar will always show their faults.