VC’s Techie CockTail

I have been a member of paypal (online payment processing site) for a year now. Yesterday I received a mail stating that I need to change my address. I blindly clicked on the link and entered my name and password but stopped short of any card details. The same day I came across a TV program which depicted how phishing and other types of online fraud are robbing people of their money.
So on second thought I saw the mail again and found out that I have been a victim of “phishing attack”.

So Techies / Dummies alike kindly check whether you are going to the correct website. Paypal, in their site have listed out a series of hints to find whether its a fradulent mail or not. Read it here>> . I think these two steps will keep you safe,

1. Paypal, sends email to their users with their first name & last name. For example, Dear John Marks whereas the fradulent mail will have Dear paypal user or something similar to that
2. Better don’t click the link on the mail , go to the corresponding site and then log in

To check whether how aware are you of phishing here is a challenge from Paypal itself, test your know how.

written by Vignesh