{"id":72941,"date":"2010-03-02T08:04:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T08:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72941"},"modified":"2010-03-02T08:04:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T08:04:32","slug":"paypal-phishing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/paypal-phishing-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Paypal phishing attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across multiple emails in my inbox which were talking about my Paypal account being blocked. The mails had a subject line as “Your Papal account is suspended”. I immediately sensed it as phishing email. As earlier I had received emails indicating about payments that I made using Paypal which were phishing emails and after that I had been more careful when going through the email with respect to Paypal.<\/p>\n

This email was not having my name and has started like “Dear Paypal Member”, usually it should have been addressed to me on my name. The email also had lot a warning kind of message like “Your account will be suspended” “Click here to activate your account”. I just moved my mouse pointer over the link and observed that the link is not actually taking me to the Paypal website. This confirmed that its a phishing email. The link pointed to the URL something like (http :\/\/ www. worldangler.com\/~paypal\/paypal.fr\/fr\/…)<\/p>\n

I still visited the link just to see how the attacker had created the webpage. It appeared as shown below:<\/p>\n

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The above page is designed carefully to look similar as Paypal official website. Its in European local language.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I advice to all the readers that while going through the emails from bank\/paypal\/online financial websites please have a suspicious view at the back of your mind and look for such signs of a phishing attack. Please “Do not click” on any links in the email. Its always better to open the browser and directly type in the email address of the bank\/paypal etc. whatever service you are concern of. Then visit the website. This will delay the process but will be more safe.<\/p>\n

Paypal had a interesting tutorial on teaching to guess the phishing email correctly. Please see below webpage to have a look at the tutorial that teaches how to spot phishing.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/fightphishing<\/p>\n

Happy learning \":-)\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across multiple emails in my inbox which were talking about my Paypal account being blocked. The mails had a subject line as “Your Papal account is suspended”. I immediately sensed it as phishing email. As earlier I had received emails indicating about payments that I made using Paypal which were phishing emails and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}