WARNING Paypal, AlertPay E-mails

I thought I would post a reminder that there are e-mails going around which are trying to get into your Paypal, Alertpay, MoneyBookers, e-Gold and Liberty Reserves accounts.

Things to Remember
Heres just a short list of reminders for you to do, especially with Payment Processor sites as the ones previously mentioned.

ALWAYS have a unique Password
In reality, all passwords should be unique, this seems more true with PTC sites that turn out to be scams, since most of the spam and the hacking comes from the crooks that run those crappy scam ptc sites. So make sure that your Payment Processor Passwords are different from each other. Don't get into the habit of having a password like fishsticks, then using a password fishsticks1 at another site. If you must, write the passwords down and store it in a safe place.

Sites will NEVER ask for your password
No site, where you are using a password to enter, will ever need to ask you for your password because they already have it. So if you get an e-mail asking for you to confirm your password, then ignore it.

E-mails
If you suspect that you're getting a bogus e-mail, then view the E-mail Headers

Header example of an E-mail asking about my Paypal Account
Update Your Account Information
Saturday, 20 December, 2008 6:24 PM
From service@intl.paypal.com Sat Dec 20 16:24:48 2008
Return-Path: [and1israel@and1israel.com]
Authentication-Results: mta103.tnz.mail.aue.yahoo.com from=; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 212.150.164.4 (EHLO server.lom.co.il) (212.150.164.4) by mta103.tnz.mail.aue.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:52:52 -0800
Received: from apache by server.lom.co.il with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from [and1israel@and1israel.com]) id 1LDuKW-0000N4-Bz for jimeous@xtra.co.nz; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:24:48 -0500
To: jimeous@
Subject: Update Your Account Information
From:
service@intl.paypal.com [service@intl.paypal.com]
Add sender to Contacts
Reply-To: service@intl.paypal.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: [E1LDuKW-0000N4-Bz@server.lom.co.il]
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:24:48 -0500
Content-Length: 8456

As you can see from this e-mail, the sender and dickhead is from and1israel, there's other ones like this so be very careful with your information. If you get an e-mail from Paypal regarding your account the link will start with either...

http://www.paypal.com
https://www.paypal.com

The same is with any other site that you have passwords for, a correct link in your browser is always the link of the main site.

Scan your computer
It does pay to scan your computer for virii and other nasties, do a search on google for a free virus scan and a free anti-spyware program.

Always be on guard when it comes to e-mails, or sites asking for your account details.