A Scam Email with the Subject
"Information Regarding Your account:"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:22:19 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"service@paypal.com"<support@paypal.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
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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.
return-path:
<support@paypal.com>
envelope-to:
scams@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:22:19 -0700
reply-to:
<no-replay@paypal.com>
from:
"service@paypal.com"<support@paypal.com>
subject:
Information Regarding Your account:
date:
Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:22:39 +0300
mime-version:
1.0
content-type:
text/html;charset="Windows-1251"
content-transfer-encoding:
7bit
to:
undisclosed-recipients:;
status:
RO
message-id:
REIDs3x1204769268.M300481P20228V-S3X
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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
Someone with ip address 86.34.211.83 tried to access your personal
account!
Please click the link below and
enter your account information to confirm that you are not currently away. You have 3 days to confirm account
information or your account will be locked.
You can also confirm your email address by logging into your PayPal account at
http://www.paypal.com/ Click on the "Confirm email"
link in the Activate Account box and then enter this confirmation
number: 1099-81971-4441-9833-3990
Thank you for using
PayPal! The PayPal Team
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent
to this address cannot be answered. For assistance,
PayPal Email ID PP391
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 a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or
Netscape) and type in the PayPal login page (http://paypal.com/) to be sure you are on the real PayPal
site.
PayPal will never ask you to enter your password in an email.
