FN-FORUM: Convincing PayPal phishing emails, be on your guard

date posted 28th January 2008 13:22

Just thought I would mention that I have received a couple of fairly =
convincing phishing emails today purporting to be from PayPal, one =
telling my my account is about to be suspended and the other with an =
offer for something or other. The reason I say "fairly convincing" is =
that they are in fairly well written English, have embedded images in =
the emails (Not just the log but even advert headers etc) making them =
look quite professional and they actually look like how PayPal send =
emails.

Obviously the links to "verify account" with html part went to the =
phishing page and one which was written as a PayPal URL in the email but =
the html part went to the phishing page.

All in all probably some of the most convincing phishing emails I've =
seen. If I didn=E2=80=99t have such a suspicious personality they might =
have easily caught me out.

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Sam Morgan=20
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