{"id":626,"date":"2007-05-17T03:33:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T11:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=626"},"modified":"2007-09-06T03:16:16","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T11:16:16","slug":"beware-of-paypal-phishing-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Beware of PayPal Phishing Message"},"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><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><a href=\"mac\/paypal_phishing_051707.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/paypal_phishing_051707.gif\" width=\"166\" height=\"163\" alt=\"PayPal phishing\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>If you have received a message titled &#8220;<strong>Notification: PayPal Billing Department<\/strong>,&#8221; watch out!  It&#8217;s been sent for phishing purpose.  How do we know that it&#8217;s a phishing message?  Well, we&#8217;ve received this message at junk912@gmail.com.  We use this particular address to collect and analyze junk e-mail messages.  And, of course, PayPal is not supposed to know that we use this e-mail address.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>  <!--more--><br \/>\nAnother phishy (fishy) part is wording.  The message says, &#8220;Failure to update your records will result in account suspension.  Whoa&#8230;  That&#8217;s a strong message.  If it said &#8220;Failure to update your records may result in account suspension,&#8221; it would sound more credible.  This message is most likely written by someone who dropped out of high school during his or her first grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have received a message titled &#8220;Notification: PayPal Billing Department,&#8221; watch out! It&#8217;s been sent for phishing purpose. How do we know that it&#8217;s a phishing message? Well, we&#8217;ve received this message at junk912@gmail.com. We use this particular address &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=626\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","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\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}