We’ve recently received 2 emails seemingly from Bank of America and Paypal. The contents of the email is quite well crafted to resemble an authentic message. Upon closer inspection the sender is actually from new-service@yahoo.com. Both emails are posted below with the links sanitized. You can see it’s actually quite convincing and less technical users could be deceived if they’re careless.

Gmail actually moved the Paypal email to ‘Spam’ while the Bank of America email managed to slip past the system.

Paypal

Unauthorized Account Access

Dear valued PayPal member,

It has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.

However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records on or before June 30, 2007.

Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.

To update your PayPal records click on the following link:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

Thank you,
PayPal Update Team

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.

Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.

Bank of America

Upgrade Your Account

Dear Bank of America customer,

In order to be prepared for the smart card upgrade on Visa and MasterCard debit and credit cards and to avoid problems with our ATM services, we have recently introduced additional security measures and upgraded our software.

The security upgrade will be effective immediately and requires our customers to update their ATM card information. Please update your information by following the link given below.

http://www.bankofamerica.com/OnlineBanking/index.jsp

We are committed to delivering your quality service that is reliable and highly secure. This email is one of many components designed to ensure your information is safeguarded at all times.

Please do not reply to this message. For any inquiries, contact Customer Service.

Copyright 1999 - 2007 Bank of America. All rights reserved.

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