Thread: Watch out for page spoofing?

Page spoofing involves altering the return address in a Web page so that it goes to the hacker's site rather than the legitimate site. This is accomplished by adding the hacker's address before the actual address in any e-mail, or page that has a request going back to the original site, often with a form that looks identical to the legitimate site.

The domain will always resolve to the address after the "ra" sign. If you were to surf to this Web address and submit any information via a form it would go to the spy and not to PayPal. Try to get into the habit of visually inspecting addresses in your browser address location bar.



Be on the alert if you receive an e-mail requesting you to "click here to update" your account information, and then are redirected to a site that looks exactly like that of your ISP [Internet Service Providerl or a site like eBay or PayPal. This type of spoofing attack is increasingly more common and becoming more sophisticated, Don't click on the links in the e-mail. The safest way to investigate your account is to type in the domain name directly into the browser address location bar and hit Enter.