In reply to Timmd:
> If somebody doesn't have their brain engaged for some reason say tiredness itmight be easy enough to trick them.
Well, that is true.
However, most email clients will allow you to customise them to show more information about the email, some of which is impossible for the sender to fake
Unfortunately, most mail clients show you information that is easy to fake.
The email you quoted in your OP will not have been sent by paypal.co.uk
If mail clients actually showed the real sender address as well as the reply-to address (which is what is easily, and usually, spoofed) then 99% of scam emails would just get binned.
ie Why on earth would PayPal.co.uk be sending you an email from an address in taiwan, or russia, or canada (etc etc etc) or from a yahoo account, or from a hotmail account or from some other domain that is not actually paypal.co.uk
You can easily see all this information, but by default email clients hide all this from you...
Yes, originally, with lo-res 3x4 format screens, then only showing three headers was reasonable, but now nearly everyone has hi-res widescreen displays and they could easily add that one extra header that, if you have any common sense, is a really, really blatant clue that it is not from whom it is pretending to be from.
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why would ebay / paypal be sending me an email from as4235sdse <at> yahoo.cn (for example)
It's all there in the headers, and it's easy to see that, if you know it's there.
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