Paypal phishing warning

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Thu Jun 9 07:16:25 UTC 2011


On 09/06/11 16:39, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> Sorry for the cross-post, and off-topic at that, but:
>
> This morning I received a very authentic looking email from
> info.paypal.com, claiming that Paypal wanted me to update my browser.
> (Really.)
>
> It had my name in it and all the right graphics and colors and everything.
>
> Except that the from site was info.paypal.com (whoever they are: hint
> - not paypal.com) and the links all had long obfuscated links in them.
>
> I verified with paypal that it was not legitimate, so I though you
> might all be warned as well.

Something which really belongs in Sounder.


> You may now return to the appropriate technical discussions....

And the "appropriate" being.......? :-)

BC

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