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| Thread ID: 122096 | 2011-11-30 16:27:00 | Possible Phishing, re. Pay Pall | Vince (406) | Press F1 |
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| 1246410 | 2011-11-30 21:47:00 | yea - it's not the first time a legit email from paypal has breached it's own recommendations by having a link in their email - a year ago in UK, same thing PayPal UK has sent out an updated user agreement email to its customers that manages to violate its own tips on how to avoid phishing scams. The payments process outfit disputes the accusation. The message - sent out on Tuesday - bears one of the hallmarks of classic phishing emails by encouraging users to click on a link to visit email0.paypal.com (instead of visiting the main paypal.co.uk site directly) to review updated terms of business. Reg reader Ian, who forwarded us a copy of the offending missive, said the message fell foul of one of seven of PayPal's own tips for avoiding phishing scams, suggesting that visiting sites directly by typing an address into a browser is more reliable than following links in emails. www.theregister.co.uk and exactly the same email was sent by paypal Australia earlier this year (and caused much the same "fake or not fake" confusion) forums.whirlpool.net.au the post at the end of that says... After reading that I sent the email to Payapl Here is the opening of the the email I just received We appreciate you bringing this email to our attention. We can confirm that PayPal sent this email. We apologise for any confusion this may have caused. |
bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1246411 | 2011-11-30 22:38:00 | Why do people think it necessary to post these? There's loads of them, SPAM. Delete. Don't need to show everyone else. | pctek (84) | ||
| 1246412 | 2011-12-01 04:19:00 | I got the same one, addressed to me personally, so did my friend. www.paypal.com.sg is a legitimate Paypal site. Why they decided to send something out that looks like a phishing scam though, I have no idea... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1246413 | 2011-12-01 05:10:00 | Rather than wade through countless pages of small print, does anyone know what substantive changes have been made to PayPal's policy? Why they don't place the changes in a bold type face, I'll never know :( :( |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 1246414 | 2011-12-01 06:01:00 | Mine was sent to me not undislosed recipients. :) Mine was too. Seems legit to me. I haven't bothered to click on the link anyway. |
Rod J (451) | ||
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