OT: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [CentOS] Paypal phishing warning

On 06/09/2011 05:03 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> On 6/9/11, MR ZenWiz<mrzenwiz@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > Sorry for the cross-post, and off-topic at that, but:
> >
> > This morning I received a very authentic looking email from
> > info.paypal.com, claiming that Paypal wanted me to update my browser.
> > (Really.)
> >
> > It had my name in it and all the right graphics and colors and everything.
> >
> > Except that the from site was info.paypal.com (whoever they are: hint
> > - not paypal.com) and the links all had long obfuscated links in them.
> Did the link really go to info.paypal.com or was it just a link
> formatted to look like it goes to info.paypal.com e.g.<a
> href='somedubious.domain.com>info.paypal.com</a>  ? Which is the usual
> case.
>
> Otherwise, it would indicate that Paypal has been compromised.
This is a scam, as far as I know.  Unless it is from the domain of 
paypal.com, it is not from PayPal.
If you have Firefox 3.6.x or better, then you should not need to upgrade 
your browser.  If you have IE 7 or higher, then you should not need to 
upgrade you browser.  I use Firefox for PayPal and there is no issues.

But NEVER use a link from within an email from a bank or PayPal.  Go to 
that company via your browser and type in its URL or use your 
bookmark/favorite shortcut.  That is what my bank tells me,, even with 
their own emails to me.  They would never require me to logon from a 
link within an email.  Even when I use eBay, or other site, any click on 
the PayPal link to purchase an item, I ALWAYS look and see where that 
like takes me.

As for that email you got, I have received several different emails that 
stated that they came from PayPal and they were not.  I would just take 
that information and go to the real PayPal site and find the link where 
you can report scams to them.  Simply put, PayPal should not need any 
"cutting edge" version of a browser to use. If your browser was last 
updated/upgraded in the past year or so, then it will work fine.


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