alibb
I guess many of us here uses Paypal as our payment processor hence, I would like to warn you of some Paypal phishing scams that I encountered more frequent recently (after I have some cash in my account)!
In case you didn’t know what phishing is … its is an email/site that was made to look exactly or very much like the original website and then trick you into logging in with your real password and account! The aim of the whole site is to steal your account details, passwords` or even session cookie!
I know many of us are smart enough to avoid these and this just serve as a reminder 🙂
-
Question of
Have you received such emails?
-
Yes
-
No
-
-
Question of
You ignored them, right?
-
Yes
-
No
-
It is a good idea not to click links in emails that appear to come from banks and the like.
When you post things like this it is really helpful to guide people.
1. if you get an email check the spelling. Paypal doesn’t send emails with misspellings.
2. Check the button or website by right-clicking on it. If it is truly from Paypal it ends with paypal.com if it goes to bobsyouruncle.com/123./paypal/me.com then you know it is a fake address.
The general rule and this is critical if you aren’t expecting an email verify. If you are expecting an email verify anyway.
Thank you for the great tips, I did not do enough research to be confident enough to provide those “guidelines”.
I do have one to add though, that Paypal and Apple (these 2 I know) will address you by the name you provide, say “Hi Raymond Tham,” instead of generic addressing like “Dear User”.
That is a good addition, they also NEVER send attachments and ask you to open them.
I used to do network security for a living, so if I fell for such an obvious scam I’d probably have to commit seppuku…
Euckk.. but that is a painful death tho “honourable”…
My shame would be so deep, my choices so few… Either live with the shame of falling for such an obvious scam or take the honorable way out
I’ve received PayPal phishing scams in the past but not for about a year. I never sign into any financial website by clicking on a link in an email. Too dangerous.
Yes, never do that! I’ll manually go to the website to login or I’d contact the site to verify if its sent by them first
Thanks for the warning. I have not received such a message yet, but I am very careful
It’s good that you’re careful. These scammers will do anything to get those data
Yes, they are very persistent and they try in every way
Thanks for sharing, I have received similar emails from different sites. We have to be careful with everything these days.
Yes, you’ll get some from Apple/Playstore too …
I have not recived those mails. I will be careful.
Yes, just be careful. 🙂
Yes I have received these emails and quickly deleted them. We all must be careful.
Thanks for the excellent reminder for all.
I just happen to see more of them recently so I thought maybe some of us gets them too
I have not received, but I have acquaintances who have suffered.
You really have to be careful when receiving emails … there are also the apple id scams …