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'Phishing' is an online financial scam targeting user. Emails claiming to be from legitimate organisations direct recipients to an often perfect replica of that organisation's website. These request your log-on account details, DO NOT GIVE THEM, once the site has these they will have access to your account and will be able to sent payments to the people who produced the copied website. This is not restricted to PayPal but includes other Payment systems, Banks and Merchant accounts, etc. More useful Security links, More useful Scams and hoaxes. Fraud warnings. Virus Attacks
DO NOT CLICK ON LINKS IN emails THAT CLAIM TO BE FROM PAYPAL. ALWAYS TYPE https://www.paypal.com INTO THE ADDRESS BAR. CHECK THE ADDRESS BAR TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE USING THE VALID PAYPAL SITE. (WHEN LOGGED ON AND USING YOUR ACCOUNT CHECK FOR https., THIS INDICATES A SECURER SERVER)
** Never click any links or attachments in a suspicious email.**
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To learn more about protecting your PayPal account at Security Tips and Fraud Prevention. Also PayPal Security Center and eBay Spoof email Tutorial
If you think that you have received a fraudulent email (or fake website), please forward the email (or URL address) to :-
Report any PayPal fraud to spoof@paypal.com Report any eBay Fraud spoof@ebay.com
Take the Fight Phishing Challenge to learn things you should know about phishing. You'll also see what we're doing to help fight fraud every day.DO NOT CLICK ON LINKS IN THE EMAIL. (Always type the https://www.paypal.com URL into the address bar, and access details from there)
Then delete the email from your mailbox.
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Part of PayPal® Acceptable Use Policy Compliance Statement :-
PayPal's Policy Reads "You may not use PayPal to sell tools or software designed predominantly to send unsolicited commercial email (UCE or "spam"), unsolicited mail, or unsolicited contact of any kind. The sale of lists of e-mail addresses or of tools to "harvest" e-mail addresses is also not permitted. Additionally, PayPal requires users selling items that may show personal information of third parties, such as customer lists in the sale of a business, to abide by all applicable laws regarding the collection and distribution of such information.
If you have surrendered any personal or financial information to any fraudulent websites. Immediately log into your PayPal Account using https://www.paypal.com and change your password and secret question and answer information. Protect your Usernames and passwords. Protect your system
Check that other information has not been compromised e.g. Bank Accounts used with PayPal, Your Contact Details, your email, etc.
Any compromised financial information should be reported to the appropriate parties.
Transfer any balance to a separate secure service, e.g. a different bank account.
If you notice any unauthorized activity associated with your PayPal transaction history, immediately report this to PayPal.
Report any PayPal fraud to spoof@paypal.com Report any eBay Fraud spoof@ebay.com
DO NOT CLICK ON LINKS IN THE EMAIL.
Then delete the email from your mailbox.
Iconix eMail ID software download PayPal Iconix is committed to making it easy to identify legitimate emails. We are working closely with companies like Google and Iconix to give our users the best protection against fraudulent, phishing and suspect emails. If you are a Gmail user, it's easy to identify legitimate emails. You can simply enable an icon which will only show up when an email is from PayPal (or from our sister company, eBay). So when you receive an email from us, or our partners at eBay , you will see a key icon next to the message in your Inbox. Only legitimate PayPal emails have this icon so if you get an email claiming to come from PayPal and you don't see the icon, it's not from us. So please don't open it. To enable this feature in Gmail, go to 'Settings', 'Labs', then tick the Enable box next to the 'Authentication icon for verified senders' option and click on 'Save Changes'. This software download from Iconix can help reduce phishing by confirming whether you received a legitimate PayPal email. After Iconix eMail ID has been installed, you'll see an Iconix eMail ID icon (a gold lock with a tick) whenever you receive authentic emails from PayPal. It's free and it works with most of the major email services like Gmail, (Google Mail), MSN Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook Express, and many more. If your preferred email program, web mail provider or operating system. is not listed, click here and we will notify you when support is available. For more information, go to the Iconix website, How does the Iconix solution work? The Iconix solution couples our advanced technologies with authentication techniques such as Yahoo!'s Domain Keys and Microsoft's Sender ID to confirm the source of an email, and will support Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM), which is a joint effort between Cisco and Yahoo!, as it is adopted in the industry. This combined solution makes it very difficult for bad guys to spoof the identity of emails with an Iconix Truemark icon.
Change your Email Notification Preferences at PayPal so that you will help reduce unwanted emails.
Log in to your PayPal account and go to the "Profile" subtab of the "My Account" tab. Choose the 'Notifications' link from the 'Account Information' section and follow the on-screen instructions to change this Preference e.g. Tell PayPal NOT to sent you email you don't want.
Click Here to view Typical Scam emails, Phishing emails.
It is usually recommended that you keep the option to send you emails when Payments or other account changes are made etc...
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SSL, Secure Socket Layers. View Diagnostics and Security for links about SSL, Secure Socket Layer.
Address Verification System (AVS): this verifies that the billing address matches the address on file for that card. Although AVS provides some level of protection, our experience tells us that you will see a number of "false-positive" readings. You need to employ other fraud tools.
Card Verification Codes (CVV2): you'll find the CVV2 number on the back of the credit card (the last three digits, after the account number). CVV2 is not on the magnetic stripe and is not to be stored online. By requiring customers to provide the CVV2 number, you have fairly high assurance that the buyer is holding the physical card.
The PCI Security Standards Council is an open global forum for the ongoing development, enhancement, storage, dissemination and implementation of security standards for account data protection.
Insurance against fraud.
Pay Pal Notice:- Protect Yourself from Fraudulent Emails
At PayPal, protecting your account's security is
our top priority. Recently, PayPal members have reported
suspicious-looking emails and fake websites. These emails are
not from PayPal and responding to them may put your account
at risk. Please protect your PayPal account by paying close
attention to the emails you receive and the websites you visit.
Please use the following tips to stay safe with PayPal:
Protect your Usernames and passwords. Protect your system
Other Warnings
Assessing Criticism of PayPal by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson Web Commerce Today, Issue 56, March 15, 2002
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What PayPal say about security
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A number of user have problems with the PayPal Instant Payment Notification system.
PayPal notify the customer and the website owner of any transactions via email. Also because PayPal send the order details by email, this does not include the Credit Card details, but may have details of the name and address of the customer with items purchased and amounts paid. Although it may be unlikely this information could be intercepted and abused. You log-on to your account using your email as the username and a password. This email, username, is easy to find out. This leaves only the password as security and I think this could be guessed at by hackers.
Over a period approx 25 March 2002 the PayPal system was off-line a couple of times. This could loss you customers if these problems continue. Sorry I have no long term testing results.
After reading all these warnings about PayPal you may wonder why anyone users their system.
Maybe it's because of the expenses of other systems.
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