PayPal e-mail advisory
Feb. 19th, 2004 01:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tuftearsI'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.
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.
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Date: 2004-02-19 04:55 pm (UTC)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.