How does a Fake Paypal Email Look Like?
I was doing something in the PC yesterday when a message suddenly popped out from my gtalk telling me I have just received an email with this content:
"You have added b694-hack@yahoo.com as a new email address for your PayPal account"
I got nervous particularly because I do not want to spend money for some hacker or thief. I checked out the "account notification" email and saw it came from sender@paypal.us. Here is the full content of the letter:
?You have added b694-hack@yahoo.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 use PayPal email restore service at:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr=_email-login
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.
PayPal Email ID PP85442143?.
Good thing the url https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr=_email-login did not work out and even if it did, I will not key in my email and password into it.
I head on to the legitimate paypal site and ensured there was that paypal favicon and the verisign icon in the paypal.com url. I checked my account and (yes!) the number of my email accounts remain the same, no b694-hack@yahoo.com.
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sometimes you should not click on the link of the fake email because the target site sometimes host malwares that automatically install into your pc.
[...] have previously blogged about how I received a fake paypal email. I have also mentioned that I clicked on the email link. Based on one comment on that post, however, [...]
I will not key in my email and password into it.
thank you
I've experienced the similar problem and I've posted with title "Fake PayPal Email: Be Aware of Fake PayPal Sites". Moreover, I've reported the site to PayPal's official site. Be careful if you are dealing with Fake PayPal Email.
I stopped clicking on any links from fake emails ever since Sel posted his comment in this post :-)
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Great quality stuff.
It was sooo usefull thank you for posting this for us!
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