Paypal phishing?

Monday 4th April, 2005
I got an email tonight:

From: PayPal Account Review Department
To: blog@jaffacake.net
Subject: Notification of Limited Account Access
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As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. We recently noticed the following issue on your account:
We recently received a report of unauthorized credit card use associated with this account. As a precaution, we have limited access to your PayPal account in order to protect against future unauthorized transactions.
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Case ID Number: PP-091-233-629
For your protection, we have limited access to your account until additional security measures can be completed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
To review your account and some or all of the information that PayPal used to make its decision to limit your account access, please visit the Resolution Center by following the link below:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=login-run
If, after reviewing your account information, you seek further clarification regarding your account access, please contact PayPal by visiting the Help Center and clicking "Contact Us"

We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department
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PayPal Email ID PP545
Accounts Management as outlined in our User Management , Paypal will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements
Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions :
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside

So...I know this is fake and I know it's phishing...but where is the catch? I can't see any wrong with the URL's. Anybody got any clues?

Incidentally, I know it's fake because I've never used paypal...wonder why!

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