Over 200 million people have accounts on PayPal, making it a key target for internet fraudsters attempting to steal money.
One of the way that criminals try to get their hands on your cash is by phishing for your PayPal account details.
An aggressive campaign that we have seen widely spammed out in the last few hours does precisely that, pretending to be a security warning from PayPal.
From: “PayPal” <[email protected]>
Subject: Please confirm your identity
Attached file: update-account.html
Message body:
When you will complete the document we have sent, remember to ALLOW javascript and ActiveX to run from the bar that will pop-up, otherwise we cannot verify the informations you have provided.February 22, 2011:Valued PayPaI Member, We have reasons to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. Because protecting the security of your...
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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