I also never open anything apparently sent by PayPal - I go direct to my account and login as Floyd says - it will let me know what's there I need to know - when I was setting up my PayPal account a few years ago, being naive, and still basically setting up the account, I was the victim of someone accessing my info and had charges on my credit card that were not mine - I learned the hard way, so I now open nothing of importance or for that matter from anyone I don't know and there were some recently and apparently sent from friends that looked funky, so what I do with the email is right click the email and view message source for the info without opening it - no problems then