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Beware!! PayPal Phishing Attack cleverly Tricks you and Asks to Verify Transactions

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Newly spreading PayPal Phishing Attack Tricking the user into verifying the Transactions details via Email medium and it looks like a completely legitimate email that comes Originally from PayPal but it’s not actually original PayPal Notification.

Spam and Phishing scammers are using very advanced techniques to fool user through many social engineering techniques and day by day victims ratio are dramatically increased around the world.

In this case, Completely fake PayPal emails going around right now claiming to victims that your transaction can’t be verified and you payment process cannot be completed.

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A Phishing email comes with Spoofed Email ID that claims that mail coming from service@paypal.com

[New Transaction Statements] we’re letting you know : We couldn’t verify your recent transactions
[New Activity Statements] [Account Hold] Re : Your payments processed cannot completed

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Email body Contains the information that claimed some urgent unusual activities occurred in your account and following information are mentioned along with this body of the Email.

We couldn’t verify your recent transaction Dear Client,We just wanted to confirm that you’ve changed your password. If you didn’t make this change, please check information in here. It’s important that you let us know because it helps us prevent unauthorised persons from accessing the PayPal network and your account information.
We’ve noticed some changes to your unusual selling activities and will need some more information about your recent sales.

Verify Information Now

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Once victims click the information, it will redirect to fake PayPal page which tries very hard to direct them to a “resolution center.” URL: my accounts-webapps-verify-updated informations(dot)epauypal(dot)com/myaccount/e6abe

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Later, it redirects to two page where it asks victims to enter the personal information.

The first page asks the information about Name, street address, city, state, zip, country, phone number, mother’s maiden name, and date of birth.

The second page asks some more sensitive information’s Such as  Credit card information (name, number, expiration code, security code)

According to Malwarebytes, anyone submitting their information to this scam will have more to worry about than a fictional declined payment, and may well wander into the land of multiple actual not-declined-at-all payments instead.

Read here for common defense to check “Is it a Legitimate Website: How to Check if a Website is Safe.

Balaji
Balaji
BALAJI is an Ex-Security Researcher (Threat Research Labs) at Comodo Cybersecurity. Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder - Cyber Security News & GBHackers On Security.

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