When I checked to see if the spoofed PayPal webpages were still present at http://production.mic.polyu.edu.hk/pp/login.html, I found the pages were still accessible. Yesterday, someone forwarded a message to me which stated an email address had been added to his PayPal account. The message asked him to confirm the addition by going to a PayPal website, but the link in the message actually led to the server at the Media Innovation Centre in the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
The recipient doesn't have a PayPal account. Whoever created the spam message probably sent it to thousands of people with no way of knowing how many of those recipients might have PayPal accounts.
I checked the online directory for the university today and sent another message regarding the spoofed site; this time I sent the message to the chair of the School of Design at the university plus email addresses for people who appeared to be IT people at the university, and some general contact addresses. Hopefully, one of them can get the spoofed webpages removed and take action that will result in the perpetrator being apprehended and disciplined.
