Re: Paypal phishing warning

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On 6/9/11, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry for the cross-post, and off-topic at that, but:
>
> This morning I received a very authentic looking email from
> info.paypal.com, claiming that Paypal wanted me to update my browser.
> (Really.)
>
> It had my name in it and all the right graphics and colors and everything.
>
> Except that the from site was info.paypal.com (whoever they are: hint
> - not paypal.com) and the links all had long obfuscated links in them.

Did the link really go to info.paypal.com or was it just a link
formatted to look like it goes to info.paypal.com e.g. <a
href='somedubious.domain.com>info.paypal.com</a> ? Which is the usual
case.

Otherwise, it would indicate that Paypal has been compromised.
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