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E-mail fraud targets PayPal users - again By Staff writers, ZDNet Australia June 24, 2003 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/E-mail-fraud-targets-PayPal-users-again/0,130061744,120275698,00.htm
Another e-mail scam is doing the rounds, this one attempting to lure PayPal customers to fork over their account details under the pretext of increasing security. Similar to a previous scam targeting PayPal customers and customers of banks the e-mail uses a deceptively constructed hyperlink in an attempt to trick people into entering their account details on a page that mimics the PayPal style, but does not belong to the company. The e-mail reads: "Your As part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website, we are undertaking a period review of our member accounts." The incorrect grammar used is one hint the e-mail is fraudulent. Readers are exhorted to click on a link reading "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=verification", but which instead takes them to a page with the URL: "http://www.exme.us/~x/". By holding the cursor over the link in the body of the e-mail, the URL it directs to is shown in the display bar at the bottom of the e-mail client. All the other links on the page point towards legitimate PayPal Web sites.
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