Fraudsters are targeting PayPal customers’ login details!
The fake is difficult to recognize because the email was designed in PayPal's corporate design. The text reads as follows:
Important note to all users
Dear customer, date: June 16, 2019
Due to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Parliament and Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, which came into force on May 25, 2018, ΡayΡal (Εuroр e) update its terms and conditions and a Verify all customer data. Since you have not yet carried out the verification in your user account and we must continue to ensure the protection of your data, we encourage you to complete the verification process within 24 hours of receiving this email.
Legitimize
Thank you for your understanding on this matter.
Your customer service from PayPal, Inc.
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What is striking here is the impersonal salutation and the many spelling errors. In addition, the sender puts pressure on the recipient so that he or she clicks on the link in the email.
What happens if I follow the link?
We click on the link and are immediately warned by Kaspersky : We run the risk of losing data! Anyone who is not warned will be shown an input mask - also a 1:1 replica of the original.
If personal data is transmitted via these replica pages, the access data to the real PayPal account ends up in the hands of fraudsters!
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Customers who have fallen for such an email and logged in via this link should urgently inform their bank!
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