It Can Happen To AnyOne

Is It Just Another Day Online?

One day Melissa received an email in her inbox. She glanced at the subject line
for a moment, cursed under her breath, "Now what", when she say the subject line that read:

"Please Verify Your Paypal Account".

She read the email thoroughly. Someone was getting into her account, and they would like her to verify her information. She was busy, but she thought that she should take the time to resolve the issue to get her online work done before the weekend. She clicked on the link they provided, and entered her id and password. But.....

When Melissa got into the website, she noticed that some of the items were not populated. No sweat, just refresh. It still didn't work. And when she clicked on the calender to put in the date span-it didn't work.

Frustrated she leaves. But then she remembers something that she had just read about phishing. Her stomach knotted up, as her mind wondered to the "What if possibility". Whenever she got that knot in her stomach, she knew she had to act. She got the link for Paypal from her stored links and contacted Paypal.

To her dismay she had been hit with a phishing scam.

When you have been hit by a phishing scam you should act immediately. Melissa did some things wrong, and some things right. One of the right things she did was to contact Paypal immediately. Why?

They can being to monitor the account, kill any suspicious transactions from the time you contacted them, and change your password and user-id.

Phishing affects credit cards, banking and other financial dealings. To learn more about phishing and the new avenue in which they are utilizing phishing, and most importantly, how you can protect yourself- read my article titled:

Phishing Can Affect Anyone

Phishing Scam

Phishing Scam- This is just a heads up to a phishing scam that all should be aware of.

Phishers are getting more creative in their phishing attempts. And one of the most recent is a phishing attempt using the Google Calender event invitation.

Part of the invitation reads as follows:

This email is from Gmail Customer Care and we are sending it to every Gmail Email User Accounts Owner for safety. we are having congestions due to the anonymous registration of Gmail accounts so we are shutting down some Gmail accounts and your account was among those to be deleted. We are sending you this email so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account.

Here's the key to this scam: Google does not ask for your password in an email. So delete.