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PayPaI
An example of a phishing email targeted at PayPal users.
- This article is about the
phishing
scam.
PayPaI was a
phishing
scam in mid 2000 which targeted account holders of the widely used Internet
payment service PayPal using the fact that an upper case "i" may be difficult to
distinguish from a lower case "l" in some computer fonts. Paypal sends account holders a notification email when they receive payments.
Spam
was sent out mimicing these payment notifications and indicating that the
account holder had received a large payment and directed recipients to
paypai.com through a link in the message.
PayPal is often the target of
phishing
attacks as seen in the picture on the right.
The site, paypai.com was an exact replica of the HTML source code and images
that paypal uses on its home page. While devious, this is not a particularly
difficult since the html and images are downloaded for display when one visits a
website. The site was registered with network solutions to a Birykov in South
Ural, Russia. The site was quickly shut down.
PayPal's Response
PayPal has guaranteed that no PayPal user will lose money as a result of this
incident. Paypal has not reported that any customers had become victims of the
scam.
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ZDNet UK - PayPal alert! Beware the 'PaypaI' scam
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