Tell HN: New/Novel? Form of PayPal Phishing
4 by compsciphd | 4 comments on Hacker News.
I just got to me what is a new and novel form of paypal phishing, that could easily target less inclined people. Instead of sending a phishing email to me directly, they set up a forwarding e-mail that forwards to my real account. This means they don't have to fake paypal, paypal is sending real emails to the email under their control which then gets forwarded to me. And all the DKIM/SPF stuff seem to check out (google even flags it as important, even though it's "To: " header is not to any email they should associate with mine. what's worse, since this is a "Billing Request" email, when you click through, you are greeted with a "We'll link e-mail_addr@naga99g-186.com to your PayPal account when you log in." It has the standard "Fraud Alert: Didn't make this order? Call at 1-888-341-5602". type message to try and get people to call in and manipulate them from there as well. I'm semi impressed, but also figure worth raising a flag of warning to others that might have family members easily taken in by this.
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