Paypal: Attention Your account has been blocked - what to do?

If you receive an email from PayPal with the subject "Attention, your account has been blocked", you should under no circumstances react to it. In this practical tip, we will show you what mail is all about.

Warning Your account has been blocked - spam mail on behalf of PayPal

• The said mail is a spam mail. Open the link in the email and you will be taken to a website similar to PayPal's. If you try to log in there, the sender of the spam mail has accessed your PayPal data and can misuse it.
• Even if PayPal's email looks deceptively real, you should simply delete the message. In the meantime, spam emails hardly differ from real PayPal emails. Even the sender's email address can be manipulated.
• If in doubt, you can log in to the correct PayPal website. In order not to fall for other spam mails in the future, we will show you in the following practical tip how you can recognize spam mails.

Also read in the next post how to set up your PayPal account securely.