A typical phishing email will have a generic greeting, such as ’Dear User’. Note: All PayPal emails will greet you by your first and last name.
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A typical phishing email will have a generic greeting, such as ’Dear User’. Note: All PayPal emails will greet you by your first and last name.
Spotted this in the footer of one of their e-mails as well:
Because obviously a phisher could never find out your name.
That text tends to appear in spoof mails too, of course.
(and for the record, I've never seen a paypal/ebay phishing mail with my real name in it.)
Fredrik - 22nd September 2007 15:58 - #
Ha :).
Also, even legitimate PayPal emails still contain the: "View the details of this transaction online at...." link.
The single biggest step they could take to avoid phishing would be to state that "Our emails will never contain a clickable link, always type www.paypal.com in your browser yourself". Voila, problem largely solved.