14 DAY TRIAL // A new phishing email has been spotted in the wild claiming to deliver a notification from PayPal about security measures.
The fraudulent message appears to point to a website hosted on a server in Australia and displays a page impersonating the log-in location for PayPal.
If the user falls victim to the scam, any information they input on the fake log-in page is automatically sent to the cybercriminals behind the operation.
The scam report from MillerSmiles says that the email has been caught on Monday and informs that the eBay-owned payment and money transfer service would never request personal information from the users in this way.
Fortunately, the threat is no longer present at the moment because the fake website has been taken offline.
The lifespan of a phishing website is not too long, as they are caught in a matter of hours through automated systems and knocked down. Furthermore, as soon as they are identified, most of the times users of major browsers on the market are prevented from accessing them, a warning message being displayed instead of the fraudulent content.
However, this phishing technique is still frequently encountered and cyber crooks still have an opportunity of a few hours to make some victims.