OT: [Fwd: Paypal® NET Security Department]

Martin Sieradzki martin at sieradzki.org
Sun Apr 24 21:17:40 UTC 2005


Brian Puccio schrieb:

>On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 21:11 +0200, Jose Manuel Velasco Martinez wrote:
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>>I have receive this email (attached), but since i remember i have add to
>>any paypal system.
>>If you check the links at the email, they are for a non know dns name.
>>I really don't trust in it.
>>What do you think?
>>Has anybody receive also this kind of mail ?
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>I do, it's a scam.  Usually the links point to a site that looks
>remarkably like PayPal in hopes that users would attempt to login with
>their username and password.  This, in turn, gives the scammers access
>to someone's account, allowing them to take whatever money they can.
>
>It's called phishing.
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>
Ip leads to an spanish server. webhoster is informed....hopefully the
page will be offline soon....




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