Unauthorized Access to your PayPal account: PayPal Phishing email

This email format is one of the most classic PayPal phishing emails with the subject being that there was an unauthorized access to your PayPal account and you are asked to verify your credentials.

The Images and everything else are taken directly from the valid PayPal site. To verify, hover your mouse over the PayPal logo. You would see that the header image comes from https://www.paypal.com/us

Sample PayPal Phishing Email

The actual fake link comes when you are asked to “Click here to verify your account ”

The URL for the phishing site is http://<don’ t click> 142.163.51.94/https/www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/login.html

As you can see, the actual site is http://142.163.51.94 and then we see there is no “.” after https. The site is based in Canada in the city of NewFoundland and Labrador.

IP Address of a PayPal phishing site

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