Paypal Phishing? Try Iconix
Just gotten a usual phishing spam email coming through my mailbox with ‘Paypal’ asking me to login.
Notice the URL isn’t going to bring you to Paypal?
General Advice on Phishing Emails
First of all, if you haven’t used the email that the ‘Paypal’ notification that came in, you are relatively safe. It makes perfect sense to you that its not possible at all for them to send you through an unregistered email. Delete it.
Second, any emails that comes in to tell you out of a sudden to log in to change some info or do some transactions that you rarely do. Delete it.
If you happen to login and realize that everything is just a ruse, immediately change your password by logging into the appropriate service site (like Paypal for now),you might still have time to do it before someone wipes out your account.
Use Iconix
It looks pretty cool to me
To be honest, I haven’t had the chance to try out this piece of software since it does not support Windows Vista as yet. It probably works like your Netcraft Anti-Phishing Toolbar to tell you whether the email that comes into your Outlook, Web based emails like Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail and more. The list of vendors that is supporting this plug-in is huge. Popular ones include eBay, Paypal, Amazon and more.
I’d install it and review it again the next few days to see if it works for me on my laptop which is still using XP Professional. And if you are already using it, let us know if its useful okay? ;)
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