Paypal email scam
Published on August 14, 2014
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Many of you may have already encountered this, or be experienced enough to recognize a Phishing scam when you see one, but as a warning to those who may not yet have experienced this type of thing, I'd like to point out a recent email scam that I encountered in my Inbox today.
I received an email from
PayPal Statements <paypal@e.paypal.com> today with the subject line "Your July Paypal Statement is Available" and a "Go to Paypal" link in the body of the email, allegedly for me to go check my statement.
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As this was a suspicious, unsolicited email, I Googled the senders email address and found that others had already confirmed this to be a scam. The "Go to Paypal" link brings you to a page that looks like Paypal's site, but its purpose is only to get you to enter your login information.
Paypal says never to click on links. Go to paypal.com and proceed from there if there is anything you need to do.
I'm sure that Paypal's is not the only site that scammers are replicating in an attempt to phish out personal account information from people, so BEWARE and never follow questionable links or take action based on unsolicited emails.
~Pat
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