Warning: Paypal Phishing Website
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Today I received a letter from Paypal in my hotmail. The letter mentioned that Paypal has upgraded its system and ask me to update my information.
By looking at it, it look exactly the same format with normal Paypal email. Before I click on the link to update my information, I noticed 2 weird things.
First is on its email address. The email address from paypal@alert.com which is not originated from paypal.com. Second thing is on its link. When I point my cursor to the link, my firefox (fortunately Firefox show link url, IE not) show it is pointing to paypale.co.cc which is also not original paypal official website.
The Prove of Phishing Website
Hence, I doubt on its request.I did a whois search on Domain Tools and found the website url co.cc is a free domain register for blog! This mean it is just a free blog service provider. Someone has registered it and make it a phishing or scam website. (more…)
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