The PayPal spoofers are getting more sophisticated. I just got a rather convincing looking e-mail purporting to be from PayPal saying that they had noticed some unusual activity on my account and asking me to log in and verify details. It was superficially the most convincing looking spoof PayPal e-mail I've received yet - I think they must have started with a genuine PayPal e-mail and altered it carefully.

Not carefully enough, though. In addition to the bogus paypal.com link that proved to redirect somewhere else entirely upon closer examination, this was the real give away:

Login follow our secure site and update all necessary informations to your account.

Once again, English grammar foils the scammers! Really, it astonishes me. If this kind of phishing is lucrative enough to be worthwhile, why don't they get some proofreading?

It is worrying, though. This is the second phishing attempt I've gotten this week. If they keep increasing in frequency, and keep increasing in sophistication, it's going to become an increasingly tedious task to sort out legitimate e-mails from the scams. (Of course, just to be on the safe side, I never click on links in e-mail, so I'm not likely to give away any personal info, but I still have to spend the time thinking, "Okay, is my account really going to be deactivated, or is this a phish?" Bah.)