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Another Phishing Trip

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Somebody is on another Phishing Trip.

The other day I read on SympleByte about the new phishing filter on IE7 with some interest, but didn’t pay all that much attention (sorry DavidC). Then I remembered getting something in my E-mail back in April about my PayPal account that turned out to be a fraud.  I reported it to PayPal and even wrote a post about it.  That Scam E-mail was phishing for my account information.

Well, yesterday I got another E-mail of the same type, different link to click, more insidious, they were looking for my LOG-IN Information to my PayPal Account.  I didn’t even click the link (smart huh?) but you can tell by the link itself what they are looking for.

 

Here is a copy of the E-Mail:

Dear PayPal Member,

During our regularly schedule account maintenance and verification we have detected a slight error in your billing information on file with PayPal.
This might be due to either following reasons:

- A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address)
- Submitting invalid information during the initial sign up process.
- An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due an internal error within our processors.

Therefore your account has been temporarily suspended. We need you to confirm your identity in order to regain full privileges of your account.

If this is not completed by August 23, 2006, we reserve the right to terminate all privileges of your account indefinitly, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this manner.
To confirm your identity please follow the link below:

https: // www paypal com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run (I de-linked it)

Thank you for your patience in this matter.

PayPal - Customer Service

Please do not reply to this e-mail as this is only a notification. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.

 

Of course they don’t want you to send an E-Mail, it would be returned as it is a FAKE ADDRESS.  And, if you get something like this in your E-Mail, DON’T CLICK THE LINK!  Contact PayPal, log-in and report it.

Oh, did I mention that the E-Mail was sent to one of my Other Mail Accounts, Not the one I have with PayPal.  That was a dead giveaway right there.

 

Update:  I just got something similar from EBay, to the wrong E-Mail address and for something I did not purchase.  Since when does EBay collect Bills for Members?

August 21st, 2006 at 11:27am | Posted by Joe | General, Scams and Legitimate | 4 reader remarks | Print This Post