Visa Scam mails flying around

It is a pleasure shopping online with paypal. Every freelancer who works online with customers from across the globe finds it simple to get paid if he/she holds a paypal account. Paypal does make life simpler, and with the newly launched paypal debit card, you can even withdraw money from an ATM, just like you would with a bank account. Because of these reasons more and more people are adding themselves to the paypal name every day, and more and more hackers are targeting paypal as a result!

The most common of scams with paypal are the ‘phishing’ emails. I got those scammy paypal fraud mails already three years ago… but they haven’t stopped – so I think this article is worth lightening up things for all of my readers and the internet crowd in general.

Automated Phishing on the rise

Dear Paypal, dear Domain-Admins, dear Domain-owner, Today I received the attached hoax mail from a site pretending to be PayPal and the need to re-verify (re-enter) all my PayPal data including credit-card and SSN info. This was a criminal attempt…

US Democrat Patrick Leahy, has introduced a new federal anti-phishing bill that would impose jail terms up to five years and fines up to $250,000 for criminals creating fake web site designed to con consumers in to giving them their…