PayPal Phishing Scam: Your Account Has Been Flagged!

Posted by matthewphiong | Discussion: 2 Comments »

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I received this suspicious email yesterday. I was at a moment thought it was real from the sender (PayPal) and the email subject (Update Your Account Information !).

After I opened the email, it is just a stupid scam. It “smartly” went through my Gmail Spam Protection.

I think it was because the sender (update@pay-pal.com) looks legitimate and also the email subject “Update Your Account Information !” looks fine too. As for the content, it is a poorly modified image of PayPal security page and a link ( https://www.paypal.com/update.php=login-account65464758467839) that links to http://eznetsuccess.org/cgi_bin/.

Here is the email content:

Paypal phishing scam
[Paypal email phishing scam | Click to enlarge]

Beware guys!

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