Another Phishing mail pretending to be from PayPal
The following is the text of an another spoof email I got a couple of days ago.
Dear PayPal Customer,
We are contacting you to remind you that on December 6, 2007 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account.
In accordance with PayPal’s User Agreement and Privacy Policy, and to ensure that your account has not been compromised yet, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remains limited until this issue has been resolved.
To secure your account and quickly restore full access on your account, we encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible by clicking the link below:
Please click here to restore your account access
Failure to verify and/or update your personal records, or if you choose to ignore our request, may result in further limitations or eventual account closure.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this case intended to help protecting you and your account.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
PayPal, Inc.
P.O. Box 45950
Omaha, NE 68145
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the Help link in the header of any page.
To modify your notification preferences, log in to your PayPal account, click the Profile sub-tab, then click the Notifications link under Account Information. Changes may take up to 10 days to be reflected in our mailings. PayPal will not sell or rent any of your personally identifiable information to third parties. For more information about the security of your information, read our Privacy Policy at https://www.paypal.com/privacy.
Copyright © 2007 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. PayPal is located at 2211 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131.
Just try clicking on the link Please click here to restore your account access. If you are using Firefox then you would immediately be notified that this is a Suspected Web Forgery. But Firefox will issue this warning only after the page has been reported as forgery and that might be a few hours or days after many of the gullible people fall prey to the spoof.
So the next time you get such mails from financial sites like paypal or your bank, make sure that the mail is genuine even before clicking on any link in the mail.
You may want to read my earlier post on How to spot a phishing email.
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