Property News · November 5, 2014

You can bank on it, this PayPal alert email is a scam


It warned of a problem and then asked me to click the linkI have just been sent an email warning me my PayPal account has been limited. It states: “PayPal recently contacted you after having identified a problem.” It all looks quite official, but something told me not to click on the link. When I logged on to my account, all seemed normal. What’s going on? CB, HitchinWhenever you are sent an email that purports to be from a bank, PayPal or similar, you need to be on alert. These emails are sent out by scammers in their thousands – if not millions – and are designed to try to get the unwary to log into their account using a fake link embedded in the email. Had you clicked on it and inputted your PayPal log-on and password, your account would almost certainly have been used to start buying items or worse. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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