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khartsfield
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Post Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:38 pm 
 

FYI, I got an email today from 'Pay Pal' advising me there was some strange activity on my Pay Pal credit card. Without really thinking about, I clicked on it to see WTF was up. The website URL was:

ultra-fiolet.pl/images/www.paypal-com-access1001/ppusa=2394.verify=do.login=1/pr2/pp.htm

And Firefox asked me if I wanted to 'Save my new password', which is odd since it was my normal, old password. Which made me wonder if it was a NEW site, which made me look at the URL. I promptly logged out and logged into my REAL PayPal and changed my password.

Be careful.


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Post Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:41 pm 
 

Just a thought, but maybe you should not make that URL "clickable".

Call me paranoid, but some sites can implant trojans on your computer depending on your security setup.


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khartsfield
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Post Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:44 pm 
 

jasonw1239 wrote:Just a thought, but maybe you should not make that URL "clickable".

Call me paranoid, but some sites can implant trojans on your computer depending on your security setup.


No, you are 100% right. My bad. (Corrected)

Thanks Jason.


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Post Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:08 pm 
 

I have got these before as well.  The one I got seemed to be a picture of the paypal site with the only clickable links being the login areas.


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