PayPal Financial Fraud Email

I can’t get enough.  I keep getting junk mail on top of junk mail.  One of the emails I got recently was a PayPal financial fraud email.  Perhaps, an identity theft fraud. The subject line didn’t say that, but I knew.  So put on your gloves for a quick lesson in identity prevention one on one.

Pay Pal Financial Fraud Email

Take my word: this is one of the best phishing emails you will ever see. The above image may look normal but it gives the first clue that this whole email is a scam designed to obtain your personal information in order to commit financial fraud.  Do you know where it is?

Notice the subject line which is designed nearly perfectly to get your attention.  It’s Pay Pal, at least that’s the perception the scammers want you to have.  Protect yourself from identity theft and financial scams like this one by learning this simple trick

Look for the “From:” line – From: Service PayPal ! [paypal@suite.com]

Notice that this email did not come from the paypal.com domain, but rather a suite.com domain.  Now go to your web browser and type in www.suite.com. You will see it is a site featuring different categories.  The point is: IT IS NOT Pay Pal!

I wish this was enough to deter you from the further steps…

The message is well crafted and brings a further concern about your credit card on file.  So far, some of you may be very much worried and regret the next step.

Clicking on this link can become very detrimental to your financial well being.  If you read the email further, before clicking, you will notice great execution in providing contact details and proper copyright statement.  I hovered over the link and I saw this:

Notice the address that shows up.  Does something seem wrong here? If you said “Yes” and “France?” you are on the way to preventing identity theft, credit card fraud, and other financial scams.  This link doesn’t even look like it will be taking you or me to a PayPal website.  It can be scary how clever some of the con artists can be.  This clever email fraud is very scary.

If you clicked on the link it should take you nowhere if you have the latest FireFox 3 browser.  Notice: the web URL is also listed in the warning.

If you skip the warning, or if you clicked this message in Internet Explorer, this is what shows up:

Luckily Lycos in France got a whiff of the identity thieves.  The page is down and you should be secure.  However, it often takes days for the web services to catch the fraudulent links which may lead to the theft of identity.  But my confidence is high that you will be much more vigilant from now on and that this blog will help you uncover other problems dealing with identity and financial fraud.