Phishing scams are nothing new. In fact, if you’re a PayPal user you’re already receiving tons of fake emails that appear to be legitimate messages sent by PayPal. If you’re a Maybank2u user, now you have that same problem as well.
If you’re not sure how to recognize a phishing scam, let me give you an example.
You will get an email that appears as if it was sent from Maybank themselves. Even the email address it was sent from may appear to be from Maybank themselves.
But if you put your mouse over the link in the email, you can see exactly what website it takes you to – which of course will not be the Maybank website. Do not click on the link, and if you did, do not enter any information or try to login to the site you were taken too.
Same thing applies for phishing emails related to other banks, it’s better ignore these emails altogether and type in the bank website directly in your browser.
Another useful online privacy lesson brought to you by Gobala Krishnan 
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the unscrupulous worker….
It has to be an Inside job, when I sign up for Maybank2u, I received a phishing email the following day. How do they know the email address? I’ve been using my maybank account for 5 years without maybank2u, the minute I sign up, i got a phishing email, it gotta be an inside job.
I got a ton email like this everyday on my email. Really annoying.. but already kick out on my SPAM box. Thanks god =)
I’ve seen a lot of this phishing emails that appears to be from Maybank of late. We need to be careful of this emails..