service@intl.paypal.com – Notification from paypal.com
Paypal.com is a great company for business owners and personal entities alike, but in this ever expanding world identity thieves are exposing flaws in human nature to make money and wreck havoc. Here’s another email that I received recently:
Resolution Center – Open a dispute
Notification from paypal.com
It has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 4-5 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records before June 22 , 2009.
Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
Log In
I removed this link: http://adsl-99-8-246-154.dsl.snantx.sbcglobal.net:82/paypal.com/account/cgi-bin/webscrcmd/ from the “Log In” section to show you that the link will not be taking you to PayPal even though it has a reference to paypal.com within the link. The sbcglobal.net within the aforementioned link should give many users the idea that this link is going to a site that may be on the SBC Global domain (an Internet provider many know now as AT&T High Speed Internet).
Don’t click that link or provide any information. Beware! Your identity may be at stake.
About the Author: Radek M. Gadek is a graduate of the Masters in Criminal Justice Program at Boston University. In his spare time he wants to help everyone understand the dangers of identity theft and financial fraud. Will he succeed in doing so? That is yet to be seen...
Ed | Sep 2, 2009 | Reply
Thanks Radek,
Very interesting blog on Identity Theft, I must come back for more updates. Thanks for the good content, and tips, keeping us away from the prying hackers.
Ed