Scam alert from Paypal

I couldn't understand how my daughter's address in Yorkshire had been linked to my French credit card, but then I remembered that I had never closed my ebay account in England. Paypal have agreed to reimburse the money taken from my account, but they say it could take up to 30 days which is very annoying as I have had to transfer money from my deposit account.
I have now closed my ebay account, cancelled my Mastercard (they will post me a new one), asked for my current account number to be changed, and changed all my passwords. It has left me quite shaken, as you will all understand. Still, it is good to know that Paypal does monitor all activity and alerted me that something was suspicious.

The problem is spammers are getting better and better at producing emails that seem genuine.

When we were last in France we received an email seemingly from our electricity supplier saying that the bank had returned our DD unpaid and to contact them. We did a quick check and found bill and bank statement, but then realised we were just at the window when the next bill was due, so suddenly got worried that that had bounced.

As all the bill was in French we felt we would not notice any grammatical errors, so we went down to the bank with laptop, bank statement and bill and flashed up the computer and showed the clerk the email. He checked it and told us it was spam, or rather it was 'pourriel' the French word for spam, the French word for email being 'courriel'. Makes both words memorable

You made me nervous for a time, Bags, but I checked their emails against one they had sent me about a genuine transaction last month and they matched! They have now emailed me to say they have decided the case in my favour, which I thought was a bit rich, seeing that I had been scammed!

Glad it was detected, gn.

When I tried to access my Paypal account, it asked for my full card number. Needless to say, I didn't give it. I don't see how the original emails could be part of a scam though, as I did not give them any information and the seller confirmed that the buyers had tried to arrange to pick up the phones from his home in Birmingham.

I get scam emails purporting to be from Paypal quite often. I check my account for anything suspicious. There has never been anything. Then I delete the email without clicking on anything in it.