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Working late one night a few months back, I was just about to sign off when I decided to check my email. At the top of my inbox was a message from PayPal, "confirming" a change in my email address. But I hadn't changed the address. In an exhausted panic, I clicked the link to correct an obvious fraud. For a split second the browser opened not to PayPal but to an unrelated IP address. Then, almost instantaneously, the screen was replaced by what looked exactly like a PayPal window, requesting my password to sign in. This wasn't PayPal; it was a phishing bot. Had I been just a little drowsier, I might have been snagged by the fraud in the very act of trying to stop it. | ||
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