So I was checking my e-mail today and I got an account notification from paypal. The e-mail (posted below) says a third party program has tried to steal my paypal account and that I should click this paypal.com/somethingoranother link, login, and see what to do to protect my account.

Of course I quickly noticed it was a scam email. So my task for you is to look at this email and see what is wrong. If you have trouble noticing the problem you are at risk of other scams, some of which can keylog your world of warcraft account. If you quickly notice the problem you are probably fine. The answer will be hidden below the break.

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The problem is that the hypertext for the link and the actual website it goes to are not the same. If you typed the website it gives in the email into your toolbar (or copy paste) you will go to the legitimate paypal website like the link says. However, if you hover or the hypertext you will notice in the bottom left that the link does not match, and it goes to a different website to log in. Fortunately, there are also other people out there to protect you, and if you did click the link on firefox you will get a warning like this:

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