Phishing Scams

According to this email, which purports to be from AOL,  your account will be cancelled if you do not click a link to “switch to the new AOL OATH”.  

Emails that appear to be from PayPal claim that the recipient has purchased an expensive item via eBay and has sent a payment for the item to the seller.

According to this email, which purports to be from Australian government services website MyGov, you are eligible to receive a tax refund. 

This email, which is supposedly from credit card provider Visa, claims that the company has detected problems regarding your credit card and needs you to “verify some informations’ before you can use the card again.

According to this email,  which purports to be from PayPal, you sent a payment to Netflix.com.  The email has the subject line “Receipt for Your Payment to Netflix.com”.

According to this email, which claims to be a high-level security warning,  your email account is about to be terminated.

According to this email, Netflix was unable to automatically renew your subscription due to a problem with your current payment method.

This email, which purports to be from the UK’s official TV Licensing entity, claims that you are eligible for a TV Licensing refund.

According to this email, which may look like it was sent by your email service provider, you need to enable “2nd step security” on your email account.