NEW “PAYPAL SCAM” Phishing Attacks

I received today a scam email about security problem with paypal account, the email contain links that redirect to fake page of paypal that when you put your paypal account it will be stolen.

Now I’ll show you pictures of the email and tha fake page .

 

• I translate the email with google translation :

• When I click on the link it will open the fake page look like this one :

• But the original page of paypal looks like this :

When I’m checking the fake site I got the script and I opened a file tha have the script that send the information for the scammers :

 

 

To protect your self from these kind of attack you should follow these steps :

 

1. Check the email address that you received from because some time they can use a correct email with any anonymous services.
2. See if the email sent directly to you for example the message that I received its says chers members paypal but not my name .
3. Check the contain links in the email and check the domain (URL) if its correct or not because they can use a domain looks like the original one like (original : www.paypal.com) (Fake: www.paypal.XXX.com or www.xxxx.com/paypal)
4. Last thing before you enter your account check if the page is encrypted with SSL system, the URL will be like this (https://www.xxxx.com) and you will see a locker appeared, see these pictures below to know how :

• for firefox
• for IE

To see PAYPAL SCAM (Phishing Attack) in action (Click here)

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