Wed 22 Aug 2007
Is this a phishing email?
Posted by Stephen under - ShareMsg - Phishing Emails , Technical Reference - AllNo Comments
What is Phishing email? If you received an email from one of the famous online companies asking you to update the account information. Checking to see if the email is from the correct website domain name(e.g. ebay.com, yahoo.com, amazon, paypal….) is not going to help you since people could fake the sender email IDs.
What should I do with a phishing email?
What you should do is to ignore the email since most of the time, authentic websites won’t send you email to update your account. If you are really worried, don’t click anything from the email and you should go to the website directly and login from the website that you typed in. Usually there will be a message center for all the message from the company for you.
What is a phishing email? Phishing email is the email that will direct you to a fake website with a “different url/ website address.”
The message below is one of the newest phishing email I got in my outlook mailbox. Move your mouse cursor on the links from that email (Don’t click them) and you should see the url destination if you click at the bottom of the web browser you are using.
Who should I report the phishing email to ?
The email addresses that you should report the problem to is usually:
phishing@thecompanywebsitename (for example: phishing@ebay.com for ebay and phishing@yahoo.com for yahoo)

Dear eBay Member,
During our Security and Resolution Center regular maintainance period it has come to our attention that your eBay Billing Information is out of date. The update process is a very simple and fast one and it must be completed immediately in order to avoid any future issues – Terms of Service (TOS) violations, cancellation of service, account suspension or even account termination.
To update your eBay records on file now click here:
Once you have completed the process your eBay session will not be interrupted and your online experioence will continue as normal.
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