[Fake Paypal Email] Your account will soon be limited.
Here’s another one of those fake Paypal emails that link to a phishing site.
Here at PayPal we are committed to continually monitoring our systems for signs of possible fraud and account misuse. Earlier our security system picked up what it deemed as unusual activity on your account.
This activity may be nothing but just to be sure we have placed a temporary hold on your account until we can complete our verification procedure, if you do not respond to this email within 48 hours further restrictions may be placed on your account or it could be locked indefinitely. Please click on link below and complete the steps as followed.
http://www.paypal.com/108389858982835890691428105790972372449764417672208827558171659628053?em=myemail@email.com
Sincerely,
PayPal Account Security Department
The link above does not actually lead to Paypal but to some other site.
If you have a paypal account, beware before you click on any link inside the email because you might be landing on a phishing site (a fake site) that will have a fake Paypal login form in an attempt to steal your paypal username and password.
[Fake] Paypal Incident Updating Your Information To the new security
Today, I got another fake Paypal email that links to a phishing site. The email says:
Paypal Incident Updating Your Information To the new security
Dear Customer, We are sorry to inform you that we are having problems with he billing information of your account. You must update your account through this link :
1. Click on the link below to open a secure browser window. 2. Confirm that you are the account holder and follow the instructions. Please click here to verify your identity
Please note: If you FAIL to update your account , it will be temporarily disabled We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause The Team Working hard to bring you the best services on the web Cordialement, PayPal
If you have a paypal account, beware before you click on any link inside the email because you might be landing on a phishing site (a fake site) that will have a fake Paypal login form in an attempt to steal your paypal username and password.
Nigerian Scam: 419 Fraud
I came across a news item on a Nigerian scam involving two Nigerians and a Frenchman on a swindle case of a typical “419” fraud in which the victim is asked to first send money as a contribution to charity, then wait for a payoff later of a significantly larger sum as “commission”
“The defendants sent ‘spam’ emails to thousands of potential victims, in which they falsely claimed to control millions of dollars located abroad,” the U.S. Dept. of Justice said in a statement.
According to the news, in one email, one of the scammers said he was suffering from terminal throat cancer and needed help distributing the amount of $55 million to charity. If a victim were to help, they would be offered a 20 percent commission.
After a series of assurances, if they won their victims’ trust, the scammers asked their prey to wire-transfer payment for a variety of advance fees, such as legal representation or taxes.
U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf warned people to protect themselves against similar solicitations. ”Potential victims need to know that any email offering millions of dollars that requires they send money to receive this windfall is a scheme,” she said. “Delete it.”
Although the case involved a Frenchman too, this can be considered a Nigerian scam because most of the people involved were Nigerians. This is not disparage people from Nigeria, but the term Nigerian scam was coined to describe scams that start off with emails purporting to be from Nigerian origin.
Domain names of forum spammer email addresses
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Work At Home Scams: How to Avoid being a Victim
Internet world has lots of scams and frauds especially for those who are interested in earning fast money through ‘Work at Home’. So many people every year become the victim of such work at home scams. They unfortunately start wasting their time on something that falsely promise them fast and easy money but never happen.
This article focuses on some tips that can help you avoiding such scams. Let us discuss these tips one by one:
- Always keep yourself away from outrageous claims. Some companies tell you that you will be able to earn huge volumes of money right from the first month. This may be possible after some experience but of course impossible in beginning of the carrier. Staying away from such exaggerated claims is good for you. Some companies claim that you can earn money without doing any work. How this can be possible? Such funny claims can easily be recognized as a Scam. Use your head to keep your self safe from such types of work at home scams.
- Some companies ask you to pay in order to start “Work at home”. Remember one precious point, any home based business requires investment but any home employment does not. There are some legitimate work at home jobs that require very little yearly fee but brokers provide full money back guarantee in such case. If any company is asking you to pay dollars in order to get hired, it can be possibly a work at home scam.
- Stay away from such companies that pressurize you to start work with them. They don’t want you to investigate them only because they are trying to do fraud with you. Satisfy yourself fully before starting work with any company! Don’t get carried away by the pressure they are putting on you. There may be a work at home scam involved hidden inside this pressure.
- Checking the credentials of company before starting work with it is really very important. There are so many things about a company that you should check before getting involved with it. You can contact with those who are already working for that company to get ideas about so many things. They will let you know about so many things that will help you making a decision. You can even call the company yourself, if you feel the need of doing so.
Online scammers always succeed when you take rash decisions. Think before you leap! Research the company as much as you can, if you want to avoid any kind of scam. The second thing which you should keep in mind is that scammers always take advantage of your lack of knowledge. Educate yourself fully about each and every aspect of Work at home concept. This will save you from lots of work at home scams that exist out there in the world of internet.
5 most common types of phishing
Do you know what phishing is? Well, this term refers to the efforts by criminals to gain personal information from online users without their knowledge or permission. There are hundreds of phishing attacks that exist now days but this article focuses on the five most common types of phishing.
- Deceptive phishing technique is used to hack an account using instant messaging or deceptive email message. It is the most common type of phishing today that exists in the world of internet. The deceptive messages that are used in this type of phishing can be about undesirable account changes, need to verify account information and like wise. Innocent internet users click on the link in the message and sign up themselves on the directed bogus website. In this way they loose their personal information.
- Another common type of phishing attack is termed as Man in the middle phishing. This attack is very dangerous as it is very hard to detect as compared to other phishing forms. Hackers sit between user and any well reputed website. They collect all the personal information that user sends to the trusted website and then use it or sell it when user is inactive.
- A very common and widely used phishing method is Malware based phishing. In this attack, scammers introduce malwares as a downloadable file from a website or in any other suitable way. That malicious malware is basically a software which can be dangerous for user’s security, if run.
- Phishers can also do fraud with you with their own website. They create a website with extra-ordinary features and do all the things required to bring their website on first page of search engines results. Users consider such top ranked websites safe and give up their personal information. Phishers then use this information for any bad purpose. Dangerous! Isn’t it?
- Everyone is aware of Web Trojans that pop up when users attempt to log in. These Trojans pop up invisibly and collect the user’s personal information and credentials. This information is then sent to Phishers that can use them easily for any bad purpose.
Phishing is no doubt dangerous and can get the innocent users into lot of troubles. There are hundreds of phishing types and this article focuses on the most common types. You can easily protect yourself from all these phishing attacks by keeping your computer and performance in best order.