Paypal Scam?

[sandyRoe]

"Thank you for placing your order at samsung.com! If you have any questions about yourorder contact us.

In case the store needs to reach you, we'll call the phone number below. If you do not answer we will be unable to deliver your order.

When you shop with PayPal you have many benefits , one of them is that you can cancel your order anytime you want and receive a full refund without no explaination."
"Without no explaination", doesn't look right. I haven't used PayPal for some time. Is this an attempt at a scam?

[sandyRoe]

Neither the phone number nor the customer name are mine.

[murraymints]

looks dodgy to me sandy

[Buenchico]

It's an obvious scam email. I get one or two like that every day (purporting to come from various companies and official bodies) sent to my old (ISP-based) email address. I simply ignore them.

I nearly fell for one purporting to come from the Dartford Crossing people though, as I have got an account set up there (so that my toll fees are automatically taken from my bank account). I was just about to open the attachment when I remembered that the email address I've got registered for the Crossing wasn't the one that the email had been sent to!

[sandyRoe]

TY, both. I'll bin it.
PayPal do have details of a credit card. If they were ever successfully hacked Visa could better stand the loss than me.

[fiction-factory]

Unless you are expecting it and/or it is clearly addressed to you by name (and not just your email address) it's best to assume it's a scam. You can hover over the sender's email address and it may show it up as something totally unrelated but even if it looks like the right address it could have been a spoofed address ( and you'd need to look at the headers to get more info)

[fiction-factory]

I'm sure it's nothing to do with Paypal and paypal's records having been hacked. If they send the email to loads of people I would guess around half would have paypal account