PayPal e-mail advisory

[tuftears]

I've noticed several e-mails claiming to be PayPal requests to confirm or verify account information. Both of these contained links to sites other than PayPal, which would presumably exploit recently disclosed IE bugs that allow a site to masquerade as another site. One did a very clever job of pretending to be PayPal from the E-mail header.

Please, if you're going to do anything with PayPal, don't just click on the link in one of these e-mails. Go directly to the PayPal site-- type the URL into your browser.

Stay safe out there, it's a nasty Internet these days.

Comments

[staticstealer.livejournal.com]

Yep, I've recieved many of these mixed in with the other scams that are sent my way. :/

[piqument.livejournal.com]

Oh, yuck.

I've been lucky and haven't received one of these in any of my Lycos accounts, which might make looking into their spam blocking software pretty interesting.

I imagine the tricks might get nastier and naster with services like PayPal where routine money exchanges are involved. One I'm thinking of is Bank of America, esp. since they have free online banking.

Hi!

[inner-geek-girl.livejournal.com]

Hi, you don't know me, but I did a search for gamers
in the bay area on livejournal.com, and your name
popped up. I have a livejournal
(http://www.livejournal.com/users/inner_geek_girl/),
but I also have a website for a role-playing game I
run. It's a modern-horror-fantasy, and I'm looking to
add some new players for my existing players to, well,
uh, play with ;)

email me if you're interested!

www.witchyways.com/dark_world_main.html

Re: Hi!

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Alas, I don't think I'd deal well with a live face-to-face game. I'm better with on-line RPing.