PayPal Notification: Payments and Statements

Today, I received an email from "PayPal" which fell into my Spam folder. Of course I opened it to read but one look I knew that it was a phishing mail. First of all, the email did not address me by name. My email address was also hidden meaning that it was a mass email. And it fell into my Spam folder too.

The email was a notification that said that my credit card has been deducted US$30 for balance owed to PayPal. Well, seriously I do not owe PayPal any money.

However, new PayPal members will surely panic and in that event, click on the two links provided in the email to check their PayPal statement. Of course the links look normal enough until one hovers the cursor over it!

Really, one has to be extra vigilant even doing something as simple as reading an email!

Phishing Email With "Discover Card"

Today, I received an email from "Discover Card" mentioning that they have updated my email details and that I should verify my email address by clicking on the link in the email. Hmm that certainly is fishy as I do not hold any Discover Card.

So what did I do with it? I hoveed my cursor over the link and sure enough, it leads to a Russian site. Of course I did not click on the link. I was just curious and I think that it's pretty dumb of these phishers to not mask these links and make them look more authentic. Hehe

Still, I wonder how many people have already been duped by such emails. Well, I think they must know already from reading so many unfortunate stories of having their identities stolen, or having their accounts hacked and taken over.

Anyway, I hope that people will be more alert when it comes to receiving email from unverified sources.