I’ve received a Phishing email targeted at PayPal accounts, and given that a lot of website owners use PayPal for collection of payments, it is worth while including the content here as a warning.

DEAR CUSTOMER,
paypal is pleased to notify our online banking customers that
we have successfully upgraded to a more secure and encrypted
SSL servers to serve our esteemed customers for a better and
more efficent banking services in this year.
Due to this recent upgrade you are requested to update your
account information by following the reference below. using our
new secure and safe SSL servers. To validate your online banking account
click on Update Online Banking .

This Email has being sent to all our paypal customers, and it is
compulsory to follow as failure to verify account details will lead to
account suspension.

Thank you.
PayPal Online Banking Security Team
2009 paypal© internet Banking . All rights reserved. Version 1.0 31w23m3

If you receive this email, or anything like it, please do not click on the link. It is not authorised and the actual target website of the link is zionwaterville.com. At best, the destination page will look like PayPal and attempt to collect your login details so that the phisher can clear your PayPal balance and use the account for money laundering and other illegal activities. At worst, it could immediately download a virus to your machine.

If you are worried that you might have disclosed your login information, type www.paypal.com into your browser address bar, sign in and change your password. Never click on links in emails to PayPal (or any other financial sites). Always use a bookmark or type the URL into the address bar.

Stay safe…

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