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Beware! It's a Cyber World - - Summary:

Email, declaring to be a "new message" from Paypal claims that an error has been detected in the recipient's Paypal account and he or she must submit an attached form verifying his or her details or risk having the account suspended.


Wake up guys! The email is not from Paypal. The claim that there is a problem with the recipient's account is a lie designed to trick him or her into submitting Paypal account details to Internet criminals. Any information entered on the bogus form can be collected by criminals and used to hijack the user's Paypal and credit card accounts.

In November, 2009 same type of phishing scam was reported here on "Beware! Its a Cyber World" titled as:

Paypal Primary Email Address Change Phishing Scam

Cyber criminals emerged with the next episode in the form of current phishing scam. Before going towards the detailed analysis; let's have a look to the mail contents:


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4 Comments

nice infor
thanks!

12 months ago

Спасибо за информацию. Будем внимательно относиться к сообщениям.

5 months ago

Это для всех моих читателей, поклонников и друзей, чтобы быть внимательными для таких мошенников ... (This is for all my readers, fans and friends to be attentive for such scams ...)

5 months ago