PayPal Sends Users to Fake Login Page

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PayPal Sends Users to Fake Login Page

11-24-2008, 10:12 AM,

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PayPal Sends Users to Fake Login Page

Quote:PayPal, the online payment service that is a major target of phishers, has been caught sending customer emails that confuse its own login page with a third-party landing site that offers spyware protection and a bevy of other products.

The faux hyperlink to secure.uninitialized.real.error.com was included in official emails PayPal sent to customers to confirm recent payments. PayPal advertised it as the official address to log in to the service. Recipients who configured their systems to read email as HTML wouldn't notice the link was incorrect unless they were paying close attention...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/20/...ink_snafu/

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