Phishing Paypal email scam

I received an email this morning claiming to be from Paypal confirming a payment from my account which I didn't make - in panic I clicked on the link for the Help Center within the email but immediately suspected something was wrong as it started to direct me to a site. I quit out of my browser immediately before the page had loaded and it allowed me to do so without any further problem. I didn't enter any personal information on the site but I am now concerned that clicking on the link may have installed something on my computer - I use an iMac so am hoping that I'm not as vulnerable as a PC user. I am also worried as after I quit my browser (Google Chrome), I reopened it and logged into my Paypal account to check that it hadn't been misused (which it hadn't). Later in the day I also logged into my online bank account. Could software have been installed onto my mac that caused this information to become insecure?


Please help - I am going out of my mind with worry now, and too scared to log in to any other websites to check my accounts. I also feel really silly as I am usually very alert to these sorts of scams, but this one was a clever way to get my attention, and looked very authentic!


Thanks


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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Feb 28, 2013 4:14 AM

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Feb 28, 2013 4:20 AM in response to MacGirl2013

First, read this User Tip from Klaus1for background information.


You should not have anything to worry about, installing on a Mac is not nearly as easily done as on a PC.


Since you checked your accounts and there doesn't seem to be any unauthorized activity you should be fine...you did the right thing in immediately backing out before the software was able to load.

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