This has been happening to a lot of my clients lately: Emails are coming from seemingly legitimate sites. Amazon, AOL, PayPal, and Ebay just to name a few. These will discuss either a security breach of your account or some unauthorized charge. All of them will have a link to reply. These are fake. The link will take you to a page that looks like the proper site but it's only job is to get your password information. Sometimes they will even convince you that you have the wrong password and then get all of your other security information from you.
There are a couple of simple ways to verify if the email is legitimate: 1) Hover over the link that they want you to click. This will display the real address of the website that it will take you to. If it doesn't have the name of the company contacting you it's a safe bet it is fake. 2) If you ever get an email like this and you want to be sure just go directly to the website it claims it is from and log in. Any purchases or security measures that need to happen can be done from there.
There are a couple of simple ways to verify if the email is legitimate: 1) Hover over the link that they want you to click. This will display the real address of the website that it will take you to. If it doesn't have the name of the company contacting you it's a safe bet it is fake. 2) If you ever get an email like this and you want to be sure just go directly to the website it claims it is from and log in. Any purchases or security measures that need to happen can be done from there.
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