E-mail Phishing Threat: PayPal Users at Risk

I love shopping online. To shop safe this Holiday online, remember PayPal will not ask for your userid and password in an email …. ever. Don’t fall for these phising scams. A good way to tell that an email is not an official PayPal communication is to look at the return email address. It may have paypal in the domain name but it will not be PayPal.com it will be something like customerservice@security.paypalaudit.com or something else like that.

In a new e-mail phishing campaign, Sophos security firm identified PayPal’s at major risk, as reported by softpedia on November 7, 2011. The enticing fake message of the phishing e-mail accustoms its victims about the detection of a hack in the PayPal

These phising scams are getting much more sophisticated. The best thing to do is when in doubt don’t do it.

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