I just found a fake email having the below message:
Subject: Suspicious Payment
PayPal Customer,
You Made A Payment to www.thetattooshop.co.uk .
Your £5.00 GBP payment is in proccess.
If you are not redirected within 10 seconds.
Log In To
http://www.paypal.co.uk
To receive a refund.
PayPal ,
Purchase Protection Department.
This is the usual view of most emails in which the sender's email address is not shown. So how can we say it is fake? Please do the standard procedure of verifying the email.
1. Before panicking, make sure to verify who or what really is the sender's email address. In this case, I find the sender not directly from Paypal: spprtppdptm@ppal.com
2. Before clicking any URL from the email message body, make sure it does not contain hyperlinks that points to different site. In this fake email, the http://www.paypal.co.uk contains the hyperlink that points to the site: http://andybrwny.altervista.org/evl/index.html
You can mouse over to the URL from the email message body BUT WITHOUT CLICKING IT:
Mousing over the URL will show where the hyperlink is pointing at the bottom left of the browser.
The said site pretends to be a Paypal site to steal your Paypal credentials, you can see below image:
Please note the URL which is not really the Paypal site.
3. If verified to be a fake email, please report it to help others.
4. In case you clicked the URL and logged in to the fake Paypal site. Login to the real Paypal site and change your password ASAP before it's too late... or maybe you can call Paypal Customer Service to report it.
That's it for today and hope this helps... Thanks for reading!
