Some phishing scam emails copy every aspect of genuine emails they’re supposed to be aping, even if that means including PayPal’s special section telling you to watch out for phishing scams. Some of them just rely on you believing everything you read in a well-written, text-only email with a convincing looking link at the bottom.
Others, however, are like this:
Tihs eliam was setn by the Bcralays serevr to vyfire yoru emial arddess. You mtsu ctelpmoe tsih prsseco by cilcking on the lkni bwole and egniretn in the slaml winodw yruo Bacrlays Membeihsrp numbre, passcode and melbarome wdro.
Tsih is doen for yuor protcetion - bsuacee smoe of our mrebmes no lregno hvae acecss to tehir emial arddesses and we msut vefiry it. To virefy yruo eliam adsserd and acecss yruo bakn acnuoct , clc on the lkni bleow:
Well, quite. Rest assured I’ll be handing over my login details post haste!
Update: Whoa - the text is screwed in Firefox/Thunderbird but for some reason it’s magically rearranged to make sense in Internet Explorer. Freaky control codes ahoy - I’ve removed them for your viewing pleasure, but I suppose this scam isn’t quite as stupid as it would seem! :~
