Pay pal fraud and scams - Tips on preventing and protecting phishing/pharming scams. |
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What does a phishing attack look like?Here is an actual phishing scam email I received, trying to imitate pay pal and steal pay pal passwords:
-------------------------------------------- Dear valued PayPalŪ member: Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the paypal account we have issued this warning message. It has come to our attention that your PayPalŪ account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records on or before May 12, 2005. Once you have updated your account records your paypal account service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
To update your PayPalŪ records click on the following link:
Thank You. Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPalŪ will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.
Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions. **Note that I removed the web link above that it actually linked too, but the actual link showed pay pal just as you see, but once clicked it was not the pay pal site, but a site that looked just like it where someone was stealing the passwords when you entered them. See the actual webpage below as it looked when it arrived in email). Here is what the actual email looked like when received, above I listed only the text from it, I have listed it below as an image. You can see how real this actually looks. Would it have fooled you?
View the actual webpage that would have appeared if you clicked the fake pay pal link above. Click here to view the phishing website page.
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