I’ve been getting some phishing messages on my Gmail lately.

All of them are well made, you won’t notice until you deeply look into the message and where it’s linked to. And here’s the one I received today, pretending PayPal.

Dear Customer,

This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by PayPal
to detect inactive customers and non-functioning mailboxes.

The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in the next 1 month.,
Once you have updated your account records your PayPal will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal.
However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
This notification expires on 08 September 2008.
Please follow the link below
and renew your account information

Resolution Center
(This is liked to .de domain, and DON’T CLICK THIS)

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
Please do not reply to this email.
This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response
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Copyright © 1999-2008 PayPal. All rights reserved.

PayPal Email ID PP309-4486

Well made, huh?

Gmail is not recognizing these mails as spams, so it appears in your inbox. Just be careful when you receive these messages. Be sure to check all the outgoing links.

You may find this phishing database (PhishTank) useful.