PayPal as a Phishing Site - Suspected Identity Theft Site ???

Question

I am using Netscape 8.1.2 as my browser.

Today, everytime I go to PayPal, I keep getting the warning message -

www.paypal.com has been identified as a known "Phishing" Site by Netscape Security Center. Please use caution in providing personal information to this site.

Is anyone else experiencing this ?

I have sent an email to PayPal and am awaiting their response.

I have tried typing in the name paypal as suggested. Same result.

Unfortunately, all the replies received so far still do not tell me whether they have a similar problem using Netscape.

I do not have a problem with Firefox and IE.

But I prefer to use Netscape, because of their Security Center, and it is this Security Center that is giving the warning to http://www.paypal.com not any other site in Russia or anywhere else.

So I just need to know if anyone else is facing the same problem with Netscape.

Maybe my setting has changed.

I have gone to Netscape User Forum and found out that this is a reported problem at the moment.

Netscape is trying to resolve it.

It has something to do with their Phishing Database.

Thank you all for your answers.

Answer 1

Try another browser like firefox http://securitynewsfromthenet.blogspot.com/
or opera http://www.opera.com/download/

McAfee SiteAdvisor Plug-in for Firefox
http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ff.html

Answer 2

Well what has happened is that you may get an email from a BOGUS paypal site. This is the phishing site. I used to get them all the time. If you subscribed to pcworld.com you would know about this.

Anyway, I read that they had traced it to somewhere in Russia. What the bogus site does is say either that someone has tried to access your account or that you need to reverify your paypal account. Now here is where it gets tricky.

The email does not address you by name whereas Paypal would. Then on the bogus site they PROVIDE you with a icon to click to go directly to Paypal. Now if you click it you will notice the URL does not say paypal.com, it says another site name. But this takes you to a site where you are supposed to supply your name and password. What I did I put in a bogus name and password and got on the site. In a read paypal, it would have said invalid name or password. So with the phising site you can put anything in. I put my addresss as 69 Forever ST., then the city was U R Screwed, UP. I thought it was funny.

Now later then tried to get even slicker. Again, some site said that they were not using the paypal url and that is one way to detect the phising site. Well what the phising site did was to incorporate the paypal in the url. For example, it might be Labroz-paypal.com. Which is slick, cuz some people will see paypal and think it is legitimate. What they do not know is that paypal and not Labroz should be the start of the URL. (I made up the Labroz name though).

Did you know if you had FIrefox as a browser you can incorporate the other browsers in it too. You should check it out. If I want to go to netscape or IE 7 it is just a click away.

I just accessed Paypal with no problem. Try this URL.
https://www.paypal.com/

Answer 3

Try typing in the address directly into your address bar. If you are clicking on a link or copying the address from a link, it might not really say "paypal" even though it looks like it does. The last letter might be a capital "i" and not a lower case "L".

I have heard of cases where emails were sent containing a link to Microsoft.com, where the letter "M" was not an English "M" at all, but a Cyrillic letter from the Russian alphabet. The link would take you to a fake website instead of the real one.

Answer 4

I have not had that happen but the web URL should have an http://paypal.com to make sure it is the official site of pay pal. If there is No http:// then the web site could be a fake one also known as phishing web site.

Answer 5

the terrific thank you to sidestep id theft on the information superhighway is to no longer provide out any own counsel until you're particular the information superhighway website on which you're posting is an internet site you are able to have faith, and provided that the positioning provides a secure style for moving into the archives. no remember if or no longer you employ a proxy is beside the point to this.

Answer 6

I am using IE so no idea. I shall try to go on NS tomorrow, then I can update you.