A young technology blogger from India named Shivendu Madhava has claimed that he received an email asking his PayPal login details. As he clicked on the link, he was directed to a website similar to the original PayPal site, but the only difference is the URL. Instead of the usual PayPal.com, it was http://206.225.19.16/www.paypal.com/ (it has been reported as a “phishing” site on my Google Chrome). Fortunately, he promptly found out that it was actually a fraudulent email, and tried entering a random email address and password into the login fields. He was then asked to type in his credit card number.
Anyone, including me, could have easily fallen into the trap and enter our login details and credit card number. So please be alert at all times or else all your hard-earned money could have gone down the drain.