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Paypal Account Phishing Scam Takes A New Twist

You’re probably already familiar with the old phishing scams where someone has passed away/fled a third world country/discovered some long-forgotten funds and needs your “help” to wire the money. For just a small “administrative” fee, the person will share the $15 million amount with you.

Though this online fraud has been exposed some time ago, people are still falling for it.

The latest scam has an interesting twist.

Here’s an email I received:

Dear User,

We recently noticed that a transaction may have been made without your
knowledge or consent. We are currently investigating the following
transaction: 

-----------------------------------
Details of Disputed Transaction
-----------------------------------

Seller's name: Hagio-Host
Seller's email: yawvaar@gmail.com
Seller's transaction ID: 7YW39066PT6017814

Transaction date: Nov 25, 2008
Transaction amount: -$80.94 USD
Your transaction ID: 30L88064FF065545B
Case number: PP-587-442-704

To see the details of this case, log in to your PayPal account by following the link below and go to
the Resolution Center.

https://www.paypal[dot]com/login?secure=ssl32?caseid=7YW39066PT6017814?=disputeTRANSACTION

The seller has been asked to provide information about this transaction.
During this time the funds are not available in your account, but if the
unauthorized activity claim is decided in your favor, we will fully refund
you for the amount of the transaction.

Sincerely,

Account Review Department

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 PayPal account
and click the Help link in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

BC:PP-587-442-704:R1:USD80.94:11/25/2008:30L88064FF065545B

This looks pretty legitimate, however, checking on the hyperlinked address to “fix” this problem, it goes to “http://paypal.update-user-info[dot]com/index.htm”
Which is obviously intended to harvest your paypal login and password.

They probably won’t catch too many people with this trick, but still it pays to be careful.
Always check the originating domain and you’re unsure, go to the Paypal website and drop them an email.

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