Ethical SEO company - Web Designer - Emarketing Consultant - New Jersey : New York

Below is a new PayPal Phishing scam we received in email inbox today. It's fairly clever with it's new subject line as "Dispute Transaction". Though they sent it to our email address which is NOT tied to our PayPal account, it did entice me to open in.

As you can see from the layout, use of the paypal logo,font's, etc., that this looks pretty darn close to an real notice from PayPal. Also not the transaction amount is "legitimate" looking, as well as all the other items.

If you are like me, my first thought was, "#$%$#! someone is using my PayPal account. Identity Fraud! You bet I'm going to dispute this charge."

However, when I hovered over the DISPUTE TRANSACTION link, I noticed the URL was NOT a PAYPAL address.

So, instead, of clicking (never, never click a suspicious email link), I checked my PayPal account and the transaction is NOT in my account. If it were, I would file a complaint through the OFFICIAL PAYPAL website.

Upon further inspection of the email, you can see the shipping info is also not Serr.biz, or anyone in our office.

So, if you receive such an email, just delete it and report the incident at PayPal Report Phishing.