Just a heads up to everyone. We have seen a much higher rate of phishing emails the past couple days, some VERY sophisticated. I was on the phone yesterday with a fraud investigator for XYZ bank as the one I got spoofing them is really good, they were unaware of it, and I think someone tried to use some cards with us that they may have gotten from that phishing trip. We had a supposed customer with two cc#s from that same bank a few hours after the phishing email was received wanting us to charge a chunk of change to the account.....I'm convinced the reason was to see if the card was good or if the number had been shut down yet. The whole thing smelled bad to me, and eventually the "customer" would not provide adequate information to make me comfortable, and simply stopped communicating with us.
Also got a supposed email from Paypal that was a bit more clever than usual. This one had three links in it's text, as it explained what it was offering, and each of those three went to a legit paypal link explaining that feature. Now lulled into a false sense of security, the reader is supposed to click the final link to enroll their account for free special features....of course the final link LOOKS like the paypal site, but the url is smelltherosesDOTcomDOTau etc, etc. and of course has you enter your paypal password.
Best bet always is to access your password controlled sites via your own bookmarks or by typing in the url. Links in emails can be very deceptive.
Also got a supposed email from Paypal that was a bit more clever than usual. This one had three links in it's text, as it explained what it was offering, and each of those three went to a legit paypal link explaining that feature. Now lulled into a false sense of security, the reader is supposed to click the final link to enroll their account for free special features....of course the final link LOOKS like the paypal site, but the url is smelltherosesDOTcomDOTau etc, etc. and of course has you enter your paypal password.
Best bet always is to access your password controlled sites via your own bookmarks or by typing in the url. Links in emails can be very deceptive.
