An extremely legitimately-looking PayPal themed emails has been hitting inboxes in the last few days, trying totrick users into entering their accounting data on the fraudulent web site linked in the emails.
"Dear PayPal Costumer, It has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website," The fake email reads.
"If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records before June 12, 2012. Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal account activity will not be interrupted and will continue as normal."
The offered link takes those users to a faithfully reproduced PayPal phishing site:
And while the URL of the site (hxxp://lejesepofol.altervista.org/plaoyap/plaoyap/index.htm) might warn some users about its true nature, there are still too many who won't be bothered with checking it before entering their PayPal login credentials.
