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Monday 11 June 2012

Reason to be careful if 'PayPal' says you have changed your email address

 Have you received a notification claiming that your PayPal email address has changed?
Messages like the following have been spammed out to internet users:




Attached to the email is an HTML form (Personal Profile Form - PayPal-HTML), that requests you enter your personal information.
Of course, the email is not really from PayPal (who would never send you an HTML form via email anyway), and any information you enter will soon be in the hands of phishing cyber criminals.


PayPal is one of the most phished brands on the internet, as unlike traditional banks it has a truly global presence increasing the chances of a spammer successfully hooking a victim when they spam out their attacks en masse.

The PayPal website asks that if you receive a spoof email to forward it to their security team.
Make sure that you take care when receive unsolicited emails, seemingly from PayPal. It could be that in your haste to fix a security problem you are handing your credentials over to a criminal.

Ace: If you get any suspicious email, better think logically and deeper before proceed!!  =)

STAY SAFE

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