Protect your paypal account, Gmails phishishing mail protection

I received an email with a from address service@paypal.com which quoted as below

Dear Member,

Your PayPal billing information records are out of date. You must update your records immediately or you will not be able to pay with PayPal.

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

PayPal, the trusted leader in online payments, lets you send and receive money online quickly and securely. Over 100 million users have a PayPal account, and it’s accepted by merchants everywhere, both on and off eBay. With a PayPal account, you can:

• Protect your account information with PayPal’s industry-leading security and fraud prevention systems
• Shop and pay conveniently by saving your information with PayPal
• Send money quickly and easily to anyone with an email address
• Receive money quickly and easily from anyone with an email address

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Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal TeamYour monthly account statement is available anytime; just log in to your account at https://www.paypal.com/us/HISTORY. To correct any errors, please contact us through our Help Center at https://www.paypal.com/us/HELP.

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

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Luckily I use Gmail and Gmail marked this email as a phinishing email and I could see the source code of the mail. The url was Directing to another site which was used to steal password and other information like the credit card no etc.

Beware of such emails

Thanks to Gmails protection to phinishing emails

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