.:Computer Defense:.

I actually had to go and double check my wallet tonight after receiving an email from PayPal to one of my accounts... It's not an account I use a lot, and I didn't remember having a PayPal account linked to it so I doubted it was real, however it was interesting.. It was the one legit email that you do get from PayPal... the Credit Card expiration reminder... I actually had to get my wallet and double check that it wasn't the last four digits of my CC that were showing...

Here's the email:

Dear
,

Your credit card ending in 3812 will expire soon.

To avoid any interruption to your service, please update your credit card
expiration date by following the steps below. If you do not update your credit
card expiration date

- You will no longer be able to fund payments with this card

To update your credit card expiration date:

1.  Log in to your PayPal account
2.  Go to the Profile subtab
3.  Click on the 'Credit Cards' link in the Financial Information column
4.  Choose the radio button next to the credit card you would like to update and
click 'Edit'
5.  Enter your credit card verification number
6.  Enter the new credit card expiration date
7.  Click 'Save'

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

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NEVER give your password to anyone, including PayPal employees. Protect yourself
against fraudulent websites by opening a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer
or Netscape) and typing in the PayPal URL every time you log in to your account.

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not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click
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PayPal Email ID PP031

So yeah.... it's getting more and more difficult to distinguish the real from the not-so-real... Had this been a real account and I not been up on phishing and not checked my real credit card for comparison (or paid attention to the domain being used) I may have been taken in by this

Peace,
HT