"Spoof"

[phill_up]

I got an email from paypal telling me that a credit card of mine has suspicious activity wanting me to log and reactivate my account. I called the credit card... still has a 0 balance, then I noticed that is wasn't legit from a tool I have installed. http://www.iconix.com/ I called paypal and was instructed to send the "phishing" email to [email protected]

I'm usually able to spot these things in a second. This one was good.

Remember never reply to any financial institution in an email. Never click on ANY link in the email and ALWAYS open a new browser and type the institution's URL in yourself. That thing was so convincing I guaranty someone will fall for it.

[Creepy]

Good advice. Sometimes they can be pretty tricky.

[OnlineStageGear]

Just hold your mouse over the link. You may see www.mycreditcardcompany.com in the email, but in the lower portion of the screen you wil see the actual IP address which is usually some number like 23.245.66.77 and is some dipshit's computer is a foreign country.

PayPal will NEVER send you and email asking you to click on a link in that email and log into your account. Also, only paypal address will begin http://www.paypal.com/ or https://www.paypal.com/ No fake web pages can begin like that. Only payal can. They may have the legit site in the textlink in the email, but look at actual IP address in the lower portion of your screen. They may look like it with something like https://www.paypal-login-confirmdata.com/ but that certainly wouldn't be a legitamite paypal site.

Matt