I've never actually done this before, I've gotten used to GMail's spamfilters keeping me clean and I've been getting a lot of mail with links recently so I just assumed it was one of those. I don't know why, I don't know how, but before I knew it I had clicked a phishing link related to paypal and didn't quite realize what I was doing until it asked me to key in some information. I have an auto-login thingie that logged me in, so my first thought was that even if they didn't have any of the information they prompted me for, they might have my email and password. I didn't waste any time saving my ass though, thankfully.
So my first action was to go to my real account, delete all my linked credit cards and bank accounts, and change my password, then go to my email account and change the passwords there too--on the off chance the site grabbed anything else off my auto-login thing. If they got into my gmail, that'd be bad.
So it's likely I'll be fine now, right? I'm going to keep the paypal account 'empty' for now, there's no funds or cards or accounts linked to it, so it's basically worthless. I may either nuke it from orbit or redo the password again in a month or two when I need to use it again, and then re-link. I'll probably do the same for my gmail soon as well. Does anyone think I need to take any further steps, and what would they be?
Oops, clicked a phishing link
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Re: Oops, clicked a phishing link
You should be fine; Paypal phishing attempts are usually pretty low tech stuff. I get them so often I just habitually delete anything from Paypal unless it's something I'm expecting. Just make sure to run the typical spyware and anti-virus scans too.
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