A Scam Email with the Subject
"Protect Your Account"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Sat, 03 Jun 2006 06:13:42 -0700 and has been classified as a
Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam.
The sender was
"PayPal" <paypal@email.paypal.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
assistancepaypalpaypal.compasswordsafeaccountnotificationinternetaccessverifysecuresentmailrandomlyreference will security(e.g. internet explorer o...(http://www.paypal.com/)dearhttp://www.paypal.com/).http://www.paypal.com/sec...for assistance
NO CHART DATA - EMAIL HAS NOT YET BEEN ANALYSED
Scam Email Headers
This a (redacted) view of the raw email headers of this scam email. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) has been suppressed, but can be
supplied as received to appropriate agencies.
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
Community Action - SPAM/non-Scam Report
Occasionally, incorrectly categorized emails get into the Scamdex Scam Email Database and need to be removed. If this
email has Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or is, in your opinion, from a bona-fide entity, let us know.
Scamdex will, as soon as is practicable, take-down any emails that in our opinion should not
be in our database. Note that ALL emails in the Scamdex Scam Email Database were received as Unsolicited Commercial Email, aka UCE or
SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
Your account has been randomly flagged in our system as a part of our routine security measures.
This is a must to ensure that only you have access and use of your PayPal account and to ensure a safe PayPal experience. We require all flagged accounts to verify their information on file with us. To verify your Information at this time, please visit our secure server webform by clicking the hyperlink below
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent
to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log
in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the
footer of any page.
To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML,
update your preferences here.
PayPal Email ID PP478
Protect Your Account Info
Make sure you never provide your
password to fraudulent websites.
To safely and securely access the PayPal website or your account,
open up a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and
type in the PayPal URL (http://www.paypal.com/).
PayPal will never ask you to enter your password in an email.
For more information on protecting yourself from fraud, please
review our Security Tips at http://www.paypal.com/securitytips
