How To Identify A Phishing Paypal Email
Phishing is a form of fraud where the person who is carrying it out is trying to steal another person’s personal information whether it relates to their identity or sensitive financial information. Certainly today any company that uses the Internet to provide services to others is likely to at some time to find that their site details have been used in order to carry out such a scam. Many sites which have been used for such purposes include such ones as eBay and PayPal. In fact phishing PayPal accounts has become extremely big business for a lot of fraudsters today. But just how does one recognize a fraudulent email that is purportedly to have been sent by say PayPal?
Firstly when you receive any kind of communication from PayPal over the Internet they will not as you for certain details about yourself. The information that they will NOT request from you is as follows:-
1. Will not ask for either your credit or debit card numbers.
2. Will not ask you to provide them with details of your bank account.
3. They will not ask you to provide them with your driving license information.
4. They will not ask you to provide them with details of your email address that you use on your PayPal account.
5. They will not ask you to provide them with your password in any email that they send to you.
6. Finally they do not ask you to provide them with details of your full name.
If you do however receive an email from PayPal and are unsure if it is legitimate or not, the best thing that you can do is to open up a new browser window and log in to your PayPal account directly from that one. It is important that you do not click on any of the links that have been provided within the email that has been sent to you especially if they are requesting you to provide them with certain personal details. When it actually comes to seeing if an email you have received from PayPal is a phishing PayPal one or not is to look more closely at what has been sent to you. Look at the greeting that is being used, in most cases the greeting being used by the scammer will be a generic one which starts something like “Dear User”, where as a legitimate email sent to you by PayPal will greet you using either your first or last name only. Also if they send you an email that is making out that your account will be closed or suspended immediately if certain information is not provided through the link in the email then ignore it all costs. Or if you are worried about what is being said in the email then open your PayPal account in a new browser and check to see if there are any problems in that way.
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