Definition of Phishing

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/p/phishing.html

If any of you do not know what a 'phishing' email looks like, you do now!! One of my Yahoo aliases was 'hit' recently.

Suffice to say, never, ever give your username/s, password/s or credit card/debit card details to ANYONE, period. Your bank will NEVER ask you to confirm the aforementioned details. Please don't get caught, as countless millions of £s/$s are 'stolen' every week by these unscrupulous 'gangs'.

Here's my most recent one:

PayPal
Please Restore Your Account Access !
Dear Valued Customer,

PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of buyers and sellers.To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.

We are contacting you to remind you that our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.

In order to secure your account and quickly restore full access, we require some additional information from you click the link below and enter enter the required information in order to restore your account.

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We encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible. Allowing your account access to remain limited for an extended period of time may result in further limitations on the use of your account and possible account closure.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,

PayPal Account Review Department

PayPal Email ID PP560
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PayPal Email ID PP468

Funny thing is, that was sent to my NON paypal email. My paypal email didn't get attack, ironic eh?

Originally Posted by Tyler

Funny thing is, that was sent to my NON paypal email. My paypal email didn't get attack, ironic eh?

*LMAO*** Typical!!!!

I wouldn't mind, but I don't even have a SunTrust account!!!! LOL

Wow,
I got one of those paypal things too also in my email and couldn't figure out why cuz I'm not even signed up at paypal.....Good thing I'm not stupid LoL. And don't fall for those kind of things......
People beware !!

Good for you, Kimmetje2004.

Unfortunately, tens of thousands of people have been hit by emails worldwide by gangs 'purporting' to be from the individual/s personal banks. Conclusion: Their accounts have been wiped clean.

Keyloggers are just as bad, if not worse, IMO.

:x lost track of the number of these emails, from my own banks and banks I don't even belong to. Good post Jazz, wll put everyone on their guard.

Originally Posted by Tuatha De Danaan

:x lost track of the number of these emails, from my own banks and banks I don't even belong to. Good post Jazz, wll put everyone on their guard.

Thanks Tuatha De Danaan........ 8) BTW, interesting etymology of your handle........... 8)

http://antiphishing.org Is a great site.

http://antiphishing.org/phishing_archive.html