PayPal is a popular payment service used by many people particularly with eBay. Therefore it can seem plausible when you receive an email that purports to come from PayPal asking you to confirm a transaction. However, anyone responding to the email copied below would either end up providing personal information to an identity thief or merely by clicking on the link could download keystroke logging malware that will steal the information from your computer and use it to make you a victim of identity theft. DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK.
This particular phishing email is not particularly sophisticated. Although it came with what at first glance appears to be a legitimate PayPal logo, the logo does not capitalize the “P”s which are always capitalized in all PayPal logos. More importantly It came from an email address of a private person rather than that of PayPal. The address used, most likely, is that of someone whose email account and computer was hacked in order for the identity thief to send out these phishing emails in mass quantities through a botnet. It also is not directed to you personally as PayPal would do with all of its legitimate communications which is an indication that this is a phishing scam. If you click on “Details” in your email you will see that the identical email has been sent to other undisclosed recipients. Finally, note the glaring spelling error near the top of the email where the word “confirmation” is spelled incorrectly.
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Transaction Confrimation |
Transaction ID: OGD2I5 SAT 14 OCTOBER 2017
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DEPARTURE: BANDUNG (BDO) 14 OCT
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FLIGHT GA 372 - GARUDA INDONESIA SAT 14 OCTOBER 2017
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DEPARTURE: BANDUNG, ID (HUSEIN SASTRANEGARA) 14 OCT 03:25P
ARRIVAL: SURABAYA, ID (JUANDA), TERMINAL 2 14 OCT 04:55P
FLIGHT BOOKING REF: GA/OGD2I5 LAST CHECK IN TIME: 02:55P
RESERVATION CONFIRMED, ECONOMY (M) DURATION: 01:30
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BAGGAGE ALLOWANCE: 20K
MEAL: HOT MEAL
NON STOP BANDUNG TO SURABAYA
EQUIPMENT: BOEING 737-800
FLIGHT GA 338 - GARUDA INDONESIA SUN 15 OCTOBER 2017
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DEPARTURE: SURABAYA, ID (JUANDA), TERMINAL 2 15 OCT 04:50P
ARRIVAL: DENPASAR-BALI, ID (NGURAH RAI), TERMINAL D - 15 OCT 06:45P
DOMESTIC TERMINAL
FLIGHT BOOKING REF: GA/OGD2I5 LAST CHECK IN TIME: 04:20P
RESERVATION CONFIRMED, ECONOMY (M) DURATION: 00:55
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BAGGAGE ALLOWANCE: 20K
MEAL: SNACK
NON STOP SURABAYA TO DENPASAR-BALI
EQUIPMENT: BOEING 737-800
MISCELLANEOUS FRI 07 SEPTEMBER 2018
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DEPARTURE: BANDUNG (BDO) 07 SEP
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CONFIRMED
| Saturday 14-October Bandung, Husein Sastranegara – Denpasar Bali, Ngurah Rai |
DEPART:
ARRIVE: |
3:25 PM Bandung, Husein Sastranegara
4:55 PM Surabaya, Juanda |
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Garuda Indonesia
Flight: 372
Economy |
Stops: 0 |
DEPART:
ARRIVE: |
4:50 PM Surabaya, Juanda
6:45 PM Denpasar Bali, Ngurah Rai |
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Garuda Indonesia
Flight: 338
Economy |
Stops: 0 |
| Passenger Type |
Passengers |
Ticket Price |
Taxes & Fees |
Total |
| Adult |
1 |
$148.00 |
$19.24 |
$167.24 |
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Insurance: |
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Total Trip Cost: |
$167.24 USD |
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TIPS
The primary question we all face when we receive such an email asking for personal information or urging us to click on a link is how do we know whether to trust the email or not. The answer is, as I always say, trust me, you can’t trust anyone. Regardless of how legitimate such emails appear, you should not provide any personal information or click on any links until you have independently verified that the request for personal information or instructing you to click on a link is legitimate. In the case of PayPal, if you have a question about your account, you can contact PayPal online at https://www.paypal.com/re/selfhelp/home
