Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

New PayPal Phishing scheme

1 October, 2007 (15:35) | Computer, Sociology

By now I hope all of you know that PayPal will never send you an email telling you to log in and verify your details and any email PayPal does send you will not contain a link to their site and ask you to click on it.

However a an account holder you will get an email if you add another user to the account and that has bred yet another type of PayPal phishing scheme that i suspect will be quite successful.

Here’s a copy of one I received at work today

You have added alexfordway5@aol.com as a new email address for your PayPal account.

If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account, please contact PayPal customer service at:

https://www.paypal.com/row/wf/f=ap_email” rel=no_follow”

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team.

Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be
answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the
“Help” link in the header of any page.

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PROTECT YOUR PASSWORD

NEVER give your password to anyone and ONLY log in at
https://www. paypal. com/ Protect yourself against fraudulent websites
by opening a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and typing
in the PayPal URL every time you log in to your account.

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PayPal Email ID PP1309