Saturday, October 25, 2008

Paypal - Phishing Anyone?




Here is another Paypal email that was received from someone:

Attention PayPal Online Client:

You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your PayPal account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter.

If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your PayPal account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.

Please login into your PayPal Online account and complete verification process

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you and we would like to thank you for your cooperation as we review this matter.


If you have a Paypal account and receive this email, DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK IN THE EMAIL!. Instead go directly to the Paypal official website - Paypal.com - and check your account from there!



*Hint - If you put your cursor over the blue, underlined link in the email you will see that the link does NOT go to the offical Paypal site - it goes somewhere else!