Both PayPal and Spotify have made negative headlines in recent weeks. In late August, a data leak of 15.8 million PayPal accounts appeared for sale on the web. More recently, Spotify went live with a new Messages feature allowing users to send private messages, and later this month Spotify will be cracking down on account sharing and pricing arbitrage.

As if all this wasn’t enough to stress out PayPal and Spotify users, fraudsters are now targeting customers of both services with phishing emails. Not a surprise since phishing attacks are on the rise .

Watch out for Spotify phishing scams

Fake Spotify emails are circulating with subjects like “Update your payment information” or “Important notification about your payment.” The greetings in these emails are often impersonal, like “Dea

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