Saturday, January 2, 2021

PayPal phishing email with subject Alert: PaٍyPal Will close account in 7 days re-activate now

 For the record, this is an Walmart phishing email attempt that is recently going around, with subject "Alert: PaٍyPal Will close account in 7 days re-activate now


What to do?  Report them, goto bottom of page. 


From : PlayPal <mail-usxx@statment-united-states.mobi>
Subject : 
Alert: PaٍyPal Will close account in 7 days re-activate now (PP-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx)




PHISHING LINKs;

1. https://update-upp022.blogspot.co.za/passwordreset.aspx?token=xxxxxx


How to tell this is a Phishing email ?

  1. Check email address in full, if it's not from originating company then it's phishing.
  2. Hover over all links in email, if it's not from the  company's website then forget it.
  3. The best way is to 

How to examine Email Message Source ?

Now lets look at message source
  1. Outlook.com->Actions->View Message Source. 
  2. Gmail.com->More (down arrow to top right)->Show original.
Check for suspicious links, anything that does not originate from apple.com.


Report Phishing Email (not as Spam)

  1. Outlook.com->Junk (at Top)->Phishing Scam
  2. Gmail.com->More (down-arrow to top right)->Report Phishing 

Report Phishing

If you have received this email take further 

  1. https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/


Report phishing at Microsoft and government agencies

  1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-faq.aspx

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