PayPaI Phishing
The PayPaI phishing is back again.
Initially this email looks very plausable but still has the PayPaI address.
Dear PayPal Customer,
As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. During a recent screening, we noticed an issue regarding your account.
Our system detected unusual charges to a credit card linked to your PayPal account.
Case ID Number: PP-xxx-xxx-xxx
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 secure your account and quickly restore full access on your account, we encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible by clicking the link below:
There was more but be assured PayPal won’t be sending you such an email.
ACTION: If you implement Action 3 emails such as this don’t arrive or you just hit delete deleted because they arrive in teh wrong place.
6 Responses to “PayPaI Phishing”
By Anonymous on Mar 13, 2008 | Reply
I get these all the time! What I usually do is hold my cursor over the link, and see what it says. Those spammers (crooks) are good sometimes, but I can always see that they are linking to some bizarre address. Still, people need to know that people are out there trying to steal from you!
By Spam Man on Mar 13, 2008 | Reply
If you apply action 3 then you don’t even need to “hold my cursor over the link”.
At best you never see these emails or at worst you hit the delete key.
It’s that simple
By Dallas Web Design on Mar 28, 2008 | Reply
As long as people keep falling for the scams, spammers will keep sending them. The scary thing is that the scams are getting more sophisticated.
By Spam Man on Apr 2, 2008 | Reply
Whilst what you say is true the sad thing for you and others is that you don’t even need to receive these emails.
The concept behind this Spam Strategy Guide is that it stops these from even entering your inbox.
By Webmaster Forum on Oct 8, 2008 | Reply
but most of the time thay can identified easily with their url….its not paypal.com….
By Marble Host on Dec 13, 2008 | Reply
This is really bad. Other day one of my friends, who has a small ecommerce store had a similar problem. His host sent him a mail, that they were taking his domain of the air, as lot of phishing mail was going through their domain.
But really some thing need to be done.