here is a rising trend in If you have already replied to
Paypal phishing scams. The the fraudulent email, contact
latest Paypal spoof I your bank or credit card
received warns me that my Paypal companies immediately to prevent
account has been suspended. It identity theft. If you wish to
asks me to restore full access to check your Paypal account status,
my account by logging in to manually type PayPal's address
Paypal. When I click on the link into your browser and log in
provided in the email, I am sent normally.
to a website that looks exactly
like the PayPal login page. But I was able to tell that it was a
the link does not go to Paypal. spoof email because the email
began with “Dear PayPal member."
This is the link displayed in the Paypal will always address you by
email I received. your first and last name. They
will never send you a message and
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/we address you as “Dear PayPal
bscr?cmd=_login-run member” or such.
When you click on the link it Another way to tell if an email
actually takes you to a phisers is from Paypal is to look at the
page. full header. The email header is
your indication of whether the
It is generally not a good idea email is from Paypal or not. When
to click on links in an email. If looking at the header it should
you do, be sure that you are say who sent the email in the
signing into the Paypal website first two lines. Example in the
by looking at the address latest spoof email I received it
location area of your browser. came from
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