[scam] A phising site

[Asif2000]

Re: [scam] A phising site

@TofiBaba

But u have to admit, they did entice you into atleast going there. So now they have your IP. One step at a time. :whistling

What harm can they do from knowing the ip address, I wonder.

I once fell for an email, I admit. I am extremely cautious usually. If they can get me, they can get anyone.

What happened was I purchased something online via paypal by adding my credit card to the paypal account. And the next day I recieved this email…

We recently have determined that different computers have logged into your PayPal account, and multiple password failures were present before the login. One of our Customer Service employees has already tryed to telephonically reach you. As our employee did not manage to reach you, this email has been sent to your notice.
Therefore your account has been temporary suspended. We need you to confirm your identity in order to regain full privileges of your account.
If this is not completed by April 28, 2005, we reserve the right to terminate all privileges of your account indefinitly, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this manner.
To confirm your identity please follow the link below:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

Thank you for your patience in this matter.

PayPal - Customer Service

Please do not reply to this e-mail as this is only a notification. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.

So obvously, thinking that it is a ligit email, I clicked on the link. Entered my user id and password and it didn’t log me in. At that time, I was freaking out. I looked at the URL address bar and I noticed a URL that is not paypal’s URL. Then I looked at the actual URL behind the html link and it was NOT paypal’s either.

A few seconds later, I open another IE browser with correct paypal URL, entered my id and password, I was able to login. Thanks God I quickly recognized the problem and I was faster than the hacker in this situatin but not everyone can be lucky. I changed my password immediately. I also removed my CC from the paypal account just to be on the safe side.

One thing to always keep in mind… NEVER EVER ENTER YOUR ID/PASSWORD ON A WEBSITE WHICH YOU VISITED BY FOLLOWING AN HTML LINK IN AN EMAIL OR ON ANOTHER WEBSITE WITHOUT FIRST VERIFYING THE URL ADDRESS IN THE ADDRESS BAR.