Security firm F-Secure is warning of a PayPal phishing scam in circulation that seeks to steal your personal information.
A fake website, which is designed to look like PayPal, was registered three weeks ago to someone using the name Asger Trier Bing, from Copenhagen, and the site is hosted in Denmark.
With the domain name servicecenter-us-eu.dk, F-Secure describes the scam as being "old school" in its approach. When you visit the site you are asked to input some details, then it takes you to another webpage for some "additional security checks", which include questions about your parents' full names and bank card PIN.
"It is quite astonishing if anybody would be gullible enough to go through the full form and type in all the required information. Like your email password? Your father's day of birth? Your PIN number? Then again... someone will fall for this. Someone always does," said F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen.
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A fake website, which is designed to look like PayPal, was registered three weeks ago to someone using the name Asger Trier Bing, from Copenhagen, and the site is hosted in Denmark.
With the domain name servicecenter-us-eu.dk, F-Secure describes the scam as being "old school" in its approach. When you visit the site you are asked to input some details, then it takes you to another webpage for some "additional security checks", which include questions about your parents' full names and bank card PIN.
"It is quite astonishing if anybody would be gullible enough to go through the full form and type in all the required information. Like your email password? Your father's day of birth? Your PIN number? Then again... someone will fall for this. Someone always does," said F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen.
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Nothing new there then - there are always website trying to get your info from you! I ALWAYS make sure i type the website address in myself so i know i'm not being phished...
Last edited by PureLegend on 08 Oct 2007 - 17:37
I was thinking the same
They could do this with ANY website? Oh my god, forward this to your friends before they give out their details to the scammers.
This fishy thing is actually not new nor anything from this week, it's been out for a while now, but it was very well planned and figured out. I got an e-mail about e months ago; they claim your username and passwords need to be changed cause of suspicious activity on your account... then when you click the change password button, you get a typical paypal page, without https or encryption, and no certificate, and the funniest thing, is a dot uk.... when I saw I that (cause I clicked the link) I said "wait a minute!, paypal doesn't have a .uk!???? this is some lame joke to steal people's account info!
Well... watch out... I bet you there's people who actually might have fell into this...
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