subject: Beware Of Paypal Account Phishing [print this page] Author: iqbal
Phishing is a someone elses PayPal account theft. "Phishing" is derived from the word "fishing" means. In this account thieves take advantage of lax victim provoked by the questions in order to steal personal data of victims, such as passwords or credit card numbers.
How it can happen and how overcoming it?
Here we will review this case stolen PayPal accounts generally is a result of phishing activity or theft of personal data owner, its rarely occur the theft by using cracking through the script, because PayPal's defense is very strong by using encryption technology, secure SSL login 128-bit has been approved by the international data security standards "VeriSign Identity Protection".
Here are some possibilities that cause your account stolen:
1. You receive an email with a request to reset your password and security question, and demand for old password and security question with claiming that your account is being limited with the threat that your account will be closed.
BE CAREFUL: PayPal never do that. Email from PayPal will never ask for personal data or passwords via email.
2. You receive an email (as if) from PayPal with a particular attachment and you are asked to open.
BE CAREFUL: PayPal NEVER send an email with attachment, so do not take with this type of email, because it may contain viruses or spy programs (spy).
3. You receive an email that asked to write the credit card number and asked to send to a specific email.
CAUTION: NEVER ask for PayPal credit card number via email, and never give credit card numbers to any email or write arbitrary, because only by using the CC account number you can be stolen.
4. There is a keylogger or a registrar of typing when you log in through a shared computer, eg in cafes, school, college or office.
CAUTION: Always use a virtual keyboard when you log into your PayPal account in a public place.
5. Fraud with an invitation mode for a PayPal account hacking other people using a particular scripts along with PayPal e-mail with your password and should be sent to an email that seemed to belong to PayPal.
BE CAREFUL: PayPal Account others are not so easily uprooted by sending an email to a particular scripts. Such an invitation is usually only a ruse to steal PayPal email and password, which contains a script email, account and password are actually sent to the email thieves.
CAUTION: PayPal did NOT using mailerbot YAHOO, GMAIL or Hotmail or other mailerbot, PayPal has mailerbot encrypted so can not be known to anyone. Invitation to access mailerbot is 100% fraud and theft of your PayPal account!
What if your PayPal account has already been stolen?
The only way of solution is contact PayPal Customer Service and report the illegal transaction as "Unauthorized ACCESS" or "Unauthorized PAYMENT". PayPal fully supports efforts to combat phishing, fraud and carding.
Always be careful and do not be tempted to do anything unlawful, then the your PayPal account you will be SAFEAbout the Author:
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