More PayPal Fraud emails on their way:
Subject: Confirmation link:
From: ”Pay`Pal Inc.” <Verification2010Users@Security.net>
Notice that the claimed (and spoofed) sending address isn’t even @PayPal.com but instead another domain entirely. You’ll also find that most of these emails are sent to multiple “carbon copy” recipients at the same time.
What follows is a typically sloppy Phishing Fraud email looking to steal your PayPal account information:
Hello, Pay`Pal |nc, Member, May 2010.
It has come to our attention that your Online account information needs to be updated.
If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records,
To continue please click the link below: Click Here Link,http://www.deeperdevotion.com/update-au/index.php
Thank you for using Service Online
Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response.
For assistance,log in to your Online Account and click thec Help link located in the top right corner
Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, Service Credit Union will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.If you fail to provide the required information your account will be automatically deleted from the Database
Not only are there several spelling and grammar mistakes in the email, but the spammer didn’t even bother to obfuscate the male-ware website address, which in this case is deeperdevotion.com. Better Phishing Fraud emails will at least attempt to make it look like the hyper-link is to a PayPal.com server.
In any event, this particular site is down. But remember that there are many other sites hosting the fake PayPal login form so the email above may come to you with a slightly different URL hyperlink.
As a general rule, the only safe way to visit PayPal, or any other financial site for that matter, is to save the legitimate web site into your browser’s bookmarks/links menu and then use that saved link to return to the site.
Visiting any financial site (or one that contains any other sensitive data) from a link contained within an email is always a risky proposition.
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