{"id":435,"date":"2007-03-04T20:01:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=435"},"modified":"2007-05-26T23:38:18","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T07:38:18","slug":"warning-paypal-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Warning: PayPal Phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/anti-spam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/anti-spam.jpg\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have obtained a very suspicious e-mail message that requests recipients to go to a website and supply user information concerning online payment system.  If you see the message, it looks real.  But there&#8217;s something phishy.  It urges you to provide user information right at the beginning.  But let&#8217;s look at the source code.  &#8220;http:\/\/202.155.199.247:999&#8221;  What is this?  This IP address is actually hosted in Hong Kong.  In fact, PayPal uses a secure protocol (starting with https as opposed to http:) at the page where their clients provide user information.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mac\/paypal_phishing_03_2007\/paypal_email.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/paypal_phishing_03_2007\/paypal_email.gif\" width=153 height=\"113\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"mac\/paypal_phishing_03_2007\/paypal_email.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/paypal_phishing_03_2007\/paypal_email.gif\" width=124 height=\"121\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mac\/paypal_phishing_03_2007\/paypal_email.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/paypal_phishing_03_2007\/paypal_site.gif\" width=179 height=\"159\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"mac\/paypal_phishing_03_2007\/paypal_apache.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/paypal_phishing_03_2007\/paypal_apache.gif\" width=179 height=\"159\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, this e-mail is sent by a group of those who never even graduated from elementary school.  But beware when you receive e-mail messages using eBay and PayPal&#8217;s names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have obtained a very suspicious e-mail message that requests recipients to go to a website and supply user information concerning online payment system. If you see the message, it looks real. But there&#8217;s something phishy. It urges you to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=435\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}