Criminals try to get access to users' login data with emails that are designed in different ways.
PayPal is particularly targeted because the online payment service can quickly be misused as soon as criminals have the login data. A phishing email currently circulating is trying to be very technically sophisticated:

The email in full:
“Hello, dear recipient!
Please be kind enough to help us get your PayPal account back on track. Until this renewal, we have the limited connection to your PayPal account provisionally.
Where does this problem come from?
Some time ago we learned of possible unauthorized credit card use through this PayPal account. For your protection, we have limited access to your PayPal account.
What can you do now?
Due to suspicious activity from your PayPal account, you should authenticate yourself as the legal holder. You can then use your PayPal account as before.
PayPal wishes you happy purchases with safe costs!”
[mk_ad]
If we click on the link in the email, Kaspersky warn us:

It gets strange without online protection, because you don't end up on the PayPal website, but on a presentation slide that was saved on a private Google Drive account:

Advantage for the criminal: If the page linked to on the slide is deleted, he can quickly put a new link there.
Disadvantage for the criminal: Such files on Google Drive can be easily reported to Google (which of course we did).
If you click on the link on the slide, you will be taken to a replica PayPal page where you have to enter your login details.
Conclusion
The email itself is suspicious because not only is there no personal salutation, but the German is also very bumpy and full of grammatical errors.
However, users who responded to the email and entered their login details on the fake site should notify PayPal as soon as possible and change their login details!
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