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PayPal Phishing Scam - "Your Account Was Opened Form Another Device" at "secpenpal.com"
PayPal Phishing Scam - Your Account Was Opened Form Another Device at secpenpal.com

The email message below: "Your Account Was Opened Form Another Device," which claims that the recipients' accounts were opened from another device and they should renew their information by clicking on a link within it, is a phishing scam. The fake email message was created by cyber-criminals to trick the recipients into clicking on one of the links in it, which will take them to the fake and phishing website: "www.secpenpal.com". The fake and phishing website should not be visited and the instructions on it should never be followed, because any information submitted on it will be sent to the cyber-criminals, who will use it to hijack their victims' accounts.

Persons who have already fallen victim to the phishing scam should change their PayPal passwords immediately and check their accounts for discrepancies.

The PayPal Phishing Email Message

SFrom: dnnn@dencwg.com
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:23:42 -0500
Subject: Your Account Was Opened Form Another Device

Hello, Your PayPal Account was opened from another device

IP address of the device: 78.149.70.173

Country : Rusia

PayPal suggest need to renew your information, click on this link you will be redirected to the PayPal website

Renew My Info

Thanks,

PayPal Security team

PayPal All rights reserved 2015

It is important for online users to remember that they should never sign into their accounts by clicking on a link. They should always go directly to their online accounts' websites and sign-in from there instead.

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