{"id":162,"date":"2006-09-15T05:32:04","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T12:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2019-02-13T08:17:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:17:54","slug":"almost-fooled-by-paypal-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/almost-fooled-by-paypal-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Fooled by PayPal Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I <em>almost<\/em> got fooled by another one of those PayPal &#8220;phishing&#8221; scams awhile back. <\/strong> Below is a screen capture of the email that I received. Notice how the &#8220;Who&#8221; indicates that it's from &#8220;PayPal Customer Support&#8221; and the &#8220;Subject&#8221; line is &#8220;Security Notice No:15768&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/images\/paypal-scam.gif\" alt=\"PayPal Scam\" width=\"427\" height=\"394\" border=\"0\"\/><\/div>\n<p><strong>The scammers even included the warning<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>PROTECT YOUR PASSWORD<br \/>\nNEVER give your password to anyone and ONLY log in at PayPal's website. If anyone asks for your password, please follow the Security Tips instructions on the PayPal website.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230; <em>nice<\/em> scammers! <strong>Fortunately, the Eudora email software saved my bacon&#8230; again!<\/strong> When I cursored over the link in the email this pop-up appeared:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The actual host http:\/\/www.qd-race.com\/images\/.www.paypal.com\/index.html?cmd=_login-run is different from the host https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\/?cmd=_login-run<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>If your email software doesn't do that, then it's time to check the full headers within the email itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The headers within that particular email contained &#8220;<em>From: Paypal Customer Support <service @paypal.com><\/service><\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the real story was further below: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain &#8211; <em>ns2.73dpi.com<\/em><br \/>\nX-SA-Exim-Mail-From: <em>international-express@ns2.73dpi.com<\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Don't get fooled!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cheers ~ Ros<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I <em>almost<\/em> got fooled by another one of those PayPal &#8220;phishing&#8221; 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