If you ever receive any reminder from any of your online account like PayPal, make sure it is not a phishing email.

If it is a phishing email, and you login to your account by clicking the links provided… you are DOOM.

You are not login in to the real site but at a phishing site… they try to fish you by fishing you!.. and you eat their bait!

When the link provided clicked, it will bring you to a very long URL.

http:// adsl-69-155-94-28.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net/paypal.com/webscr.php?… (it’s very long but i shorten it… same with the rest)

Then you will be redirected to another site….

http:// 83.38.2.105/paypal.com/index.php?cmd…

Notice the http:// 83.38.2.105/paypal.com/…

Yea, looks like it belongs to paypal.com

Phishing always put the ULR like this. In actual fact, the site is not http:// paypal.com but http:// 83.38.2.105

Here, the paypal.com is the subdirectory of http:// 83.38.2.105, so it is not http:// paypal.com site.

Another example from http:// numenmail.com which always come to my inbox saying I won $400

http:// numenmail.com.l-pages.l-prize_center.php.l-id.8d.5k.nq.tq.rv.s3.lang.in/whois.php?…

Always look for the first slash ‘/’ to start interpreting the URL…  this site belongs to http:// lang.in

The next time you see a long URL, make sure the first part is the site you really going to… check to the left from the first /

The PayPal phishing email I received today:

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Dear PayPal member,

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. We recently contacted you after noticing an issue on your account.We requested information from you for the following reason:

Our system requires further account verification.

Case ID Number: PP-552-277-785

Click here to restore your account information

This is a second reminder to log in to PayPal as soon as possible. Once you log in, you will be provided with steps to restore your account access.

In accordance with PayPal’s User Agreement, your account access will remain limited until the issue has been resolved. Unfortunately, if access to your account remains limited for an extended period of time, it may result in further limitations or eventual account closure. We encourage you to log in to your PayPal account as soon as possible to help avoid this.

To review your account and some or all of the information that PayPal used to make its decision to limit your account access, please visit the Resolution Center. If, after reviewing your account information, you seek further clarification regarding your account access, please contact PayPal by visiting the Help Center and clicking “Contact Us”.

We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,

PayPal Account Review Department

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