Watchout Paypal phising mails..

I get spammed daily with this mail:

Subject: Restore Your Account Access

PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of customers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.

We are contacting you to remind you that on 5 March 2006 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.

To secure your account and quickly restore full access, we may require some additional information from you for the following reason:

We have been notified that a card associated with your account has been reported as lost or stolen, or that there were additional problems with your card.


This process is mandatory, and if not completed within the nearest time your account or credit card may be subject for temporary suspension.

To securely confirm your PayPal information please click on the link bellow:

http://update-account.webcv.info/

We encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible. Allowing your account access to remain limited for an extended period of time may result in further limitations on the use of your account and possible account closure.

For more information about how to protect your account please visit PayPal Security Center. We apologize for any incovenience this may cause, and we apriciate your assistance in helping us to maintain the integrity of the entire PayPal system.

Thank you for using PayPal!

The PayPal Team

As you can see they use the url: http://update-account.webcv.info/ keep that in mind!

 

Some mod please remove the active links.

 

Phishing and PayPal/eBay go hand in hand (unfortunately). These phishing emails are very, very common and I think most of us experience the same - it's currently being discussed in the 'Payment Processing' section.

 

sorry for placing in the wrong topic. Just wanted to warn everybody

 

does it have those official looking paypal logos?

 

Most of these phishing emails do have the proper logo. I wrote a summary on recognising these dodgy emails in an article not long ago:

* A genuine Paypal email will never ask you for your bank account details, identification documents, email addresses, passwords or name.
* A genuine PayPal email will always start with your name (because they know what it is!)
* A fake email normally has a generic greeting such as 'Dear PayPal User'.
* A fake email may appear to come from a bone fide PayPal email address. Do not accept the 'From' email address as confirmation of the sender's identity.
* A fake email sometimes has a false sense of urgency - for example, it may say 'if you don't provide these details within X hrs your account will be terminated'. This is a ploy to make you act in haste.
* Watch for fake links. As with the 'From' email address the appearance of links can be very easily changed. Check the destination (right click > link properties) before clicking on the link.
* If in any doubt report it to PayPal. Forward the entire suspect email to: . You will get a reply within a few minutes confirming whether it is genuine or not.