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I received a very real-looking email from PayPal with the subject line: “PayPal Notification: Payments and Statement”. The crux of the message was they debited my business account for $32.00. No reason given.

The link to view my Account Summary contained paypal.com but hovering my mouse over it showed it went to somehost.lan.io domain…obviously a fake.

The email was forwarded to spoof@paypal.com which brought a quick reply saying the email was, indeed, a spoof and they will take care of it. This event goes back to one of mysecurepc.com’s tenets: do not click on any email link.

Doug

How much do you think you are worth on Internet? Not much, I’m afraid.

This came off FraudArena and is the going rate for your personal information:

$1.50 credit card number, cvv2
$5-$50 stolen medical ID card
$6-$18 basic identity information
$6 British passport number and bank details
$7 hijacked PayPal account with credentials
$14-16 fulls” are a complete set of data identifiers, i.e. name, address social security number, bank account, and mothers maiden name
$30 Passwords and codes to access consumer credit reports
$30-$300 immigration papers with a social security card

Just thought I would pass this along.

Doug

I found out a little nuance in the way you login to PayPal: securely and not securely. Unfortunately, the default is not secure.

When presented to PayPal.com there is a member login and password area. If you login through this, it is *not* secure. Notice http instead of https. If you click on ‘Log In’ it will take you to a secure login web page. https shows up along with the security lock (which shows that the site credentials are for www.paypal.com

Doug

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