PayPal Users, Beware of This Phishing Campaign Trying to Steal Your Identity

If you are a PayPal user, you will obviously be very careful about the emails you receive about your balance and whatnot. This is because there are numerous phishing campaigns targeting PayPal users and here is another new one.
The latest phishing campaign tricks the PayPal users by using fake pages that are really well done, these are hard to distinguish from the real ones. According to the ESET researchers, this latest attack uses very convincing bait and takes the user through fake web pages that look legitimate and tricks user into revealing his login credentials and other needed personal information.

The emails user receives include logos, wording that looks just fine at the first glance. But when you have a closer look at the text, you can find grammar and syntax errors and this suggests that the author is not a native English speaker.

How does it work?

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