Now proof has emerged that the elderly, unemployed and undergraduates are not the only ones watching such shows, as phishing emails claiming to be messages from the producers have been detected. across the recipient “while searching through [a] …

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Another Phishing scam to be aware of. It claims you sent a payment of 69.99 GBP to Skype (TopUp@******.com). If you are like most of us you’ll want to log in to your PayPal account to stop this transaction. Don’t do it. The problem is the link in this email is a fake PayPal site and if you login they’ve got your PayPal userid and password.

Email notifies the recipient that a Skype TopUp payment of 69.99 GBP has been made via his or her PayPal account.

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If you’ve fallen pray to this, all you need to do is change your PayPal password. And check to make sure they haven’t sent any large sums of money to themselves or their cohorts. If they have, you can go to the Resolution Center to file a claim. This also brings to light the reason to not have a lot of money in the Bank Account tied to your PayPal account. If the money isn’t there they can’t grab it and if they use your Cedit Card that is tied to your PayPal account, you can easily do a charge back.

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I love shopping online. To shop safe this Holiday online, remember PayPal will not ask for your userid and password in an email …. ever. Don’t fall for these phising scams. A good way to tell that an email is not an official PayPal communication is to look at the return email address. It may have paypal in the domain name but it will not be PayPal.com it will be something like customerservice@security.paypalaudit.com or something else like that.

In a new e-mail phishing campaign, Sophos security firm identified PayPal’s at major risk, as reported by softpedia on November 7, 2011. The enticing fake message of the phishing e-mail accustoms its victims about the detection of a hack in the PayPal …

These phising scams are getting much more sophisticated. The best thing to do is when in doubt don’t do it.

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Aviod these online holiday phising scams detaied by, Technology on MSNBC.

We are so busy during the holidays, we let our guard down. Don’t these people have anything better to do than attack the public?!?!

1. Mobile malware

2. Malicious mobile apps

3. Phony Facebook promotions and contests

4. Scareware, or fake antivirus software

5. Holiday screensavers

6. Mac malware

7. Holiday phishing scams

8. Online coupon scams and offers

9. Mystery shopper scams

10. Hotel “wrong transaction” malware emails

11. “It” gift scams

12. “I’m away from home” scammers

Holidayphishingscams: “Cyber scammers know that most people are busy around the holidays so they tailor their emails and social messages with holiday themes in the hopes of tricking recipients into revealing personal information.…msnbc.com Also, Make sure you

keep Windows Up to date with Automatic Updates and keep your Antivirus Up to date and let it run nightly scans. This will help keep you safer.

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