Here is the latest scam I got yesterday. I received an email from paypal saying a charge had been made to my paypal account. Now I'm telling you, this email looked real. It was a charge for something I definitely didn't purchase. It made it look like PayPal was concerned that this charge may not be valid. It gave me a link to click on if I thought this was a bogus charge to cancel it. I clicked on to the link, just to see what it was.
The page that came up had the PayPal headings, colors, and everything just like the real PayPal. Of course, at that point it was asking me to log on to my account and cancel the transaction.
I was pretty sure it wasn't legit, so I forwarded the original email to PayPal spam. They sent and email back within 5 minutes saying someone was phishing for my info and took care of it.
I'm just here to say that it was so perfectly disguised that I am sure they get 9 out of 10 people. The catch they have is making you think someone charged something to your account, and you immediately want to get it off. Pretty tricky. Bob
The page that came up had the PayPal headings, colors, and everything just like the real PayPal. Of course, at that point it was asking me to log on to my account and cancel the transaction.
I was pretty sure it wasn't legit, so I forwarded the original email to PayPal spam. They sent and email back within 5 minutes saying someone was phishing for my info and took care of it.
I'm just here to say that it was so perfectly disguised that I am sure they get 9 out of 10 people. The catch they have is making you think someone charged something to your account, and you immediately want to get it off. Pretty tricky. Bob