An
Email with the Subject "Update your PayPal billing information." was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:23:53 -0700
and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email.
The sender shows as "PayPal" <do.not.reply@paypal.com>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in
this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be
added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
Scam TagCloud
paypalpaypal.comcreditpasswordnotificationinvestigationsentonlinemail will securitydearhttps://www.paypal.com/us...
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 investigating or law enforcement agencies on request.
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[return-path:] =>
[envelope-to:] => submitted@scamdex.com,submissions@scamdex.com,scams@scamdex.com
[delivery-date:] => Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:23:53 -0700
[received:] => from [222.239.73.29] (helo=mail.com)by sun.newsblaze.com with smtp (Exim 4.52)id 1G4ShE-0001AK-CO; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:23:53 -0700
[from:] => "PayPal"
[subject:] => Update your PayPal billing information.
[date:] => Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:53:16 +0900
[mime-version:] => 1.0
[content-type:] => text/html;charset="Windows-1251"
[content-transfer-encoding:] => 7bit
[x-priority:] => 1
[x-msmail-priority:] => High
[x-mailer:] => Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
[x-mimeole:] => Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
[status:] => RO
[x-status:] =>
[x-keywords:] =>
[message-id:] => reIDScdx00001204769268.M229695P20228V-S2X
[x-uid:] => 17671
[x-scamdex-scores:] => S:30 P:32 A:31 L:29 E:29 G:28
[x-scamdex-classtype:] => P
[x-scamdex-classscore:] => 32
[x-scamdex-totscore:] => 179
[x-scamdex-kw:] => card,credit,inc.,investigation,notification,password,paypal,sent
[x-scamdex-dir:] => A
[x-scamdex-id:] => A1204769268.M229695P20228V
[x-scamdex-copyright:] => This Email is Copyright Scamdex.com 2009, Reproduction Prohibited
)
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
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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.
You have recived this email as part of a Verified PayPal campaign meant to increase security for
your credit card against online credit card fraud.
Verified PayPal has detected that you have been using this email address for online purchases and in
order to protect yourself against online credit card fraud we would like to introduce you to a new
system that will protect you against frauds.
You can associate your email address to your credit card and recive a password that you will use
for any online purchase. Also you will be notified by Verified PayPal when an online purchase is
made.
Follow the below and go to Verified PayPal. You can join the Verified PayPal system or learn more
about this.
You have recived this email as part of a Verified PayPal campaign meant to increase security for
your credit card against online credit card fraud.
Verified PayPal has detected that you have been using this email address for online purchases and in
order to protect yourself against online credit card fraud we would like to introduce you to a new
system that will protect you against frauds.
You can associate your email address to your credit card and recive a password that you will use
for any online purchase. Also you will be notified by Verified PayPal when an online purchase is
made.
Follow the below and go to Verified PayPal. You can join the Verified PayPal system or learn more
about this.