[TriLUG] OT: phishing on PayPal

[Jason Faulkner]

They don't know any of it. They send out all those emails at one time
to millions, hoping to hit on one that rings true (which is so in your
case).


On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:07:49 -0500, Joseph Mack <mack.joseph at epa.gov> wrote:
> I don't know whether phishing is news to people on this group, but this
> is the first time it's happened to me.
> 
> I've been doing some travelling and accessing paypal from various different
> IPs and wasn't terribly surprised to get e-mail from PayPal telling me that
> they had noticed my change in behaviour and quoting the domains I was coming
> from (which I didn't recognise) and wanted me to go to their site
> and reconfirm my identity. I expected to need an exchange of e-mails to
> my registered e-mail account. Instead when I clicked on the link labelled
> www.paypal.com (or whatever) I got a webpage with an IP in the URL and
> asking me to fill in my credit card details. Looking at the e-mail I see
> the link displays the string for paypal, but the embedded link is to an IP.
> 
> I've e-mailed PayPal cc:'ing the mail, and asking how someone else might
> know I've been travelling (they may not, and are just sending the same
> e-mail to everyone), but have not heard back from them. I'm also wondering
> how anyone knows I have a paypal account.
> 
> Joe
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