A Scam Email with the Subject
"Please Update Your Account"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:08:49 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
PayPal <onlineservice@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:
<nobody@s7.coowo.com>
envelope-to:
scams@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:08:49 -0700
date:
Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:08:42 +0800 (CST)
to:
scams@HUN1P0T
subject:
Please Update Your Account
from:
PayPal <onlineservice@paypal.com>
reply-to:
onlineservice@paypal.com
mime-version:
1.0
content-type:
text/html
content-transfer-encoding:
8bit
status:
O
message-id:
<200610210508.k9L58g4b019909@s7.coowo.com>
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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
It has
come to
out attention that your PayPal
account
information needs to
be
updated as . part of
.our continuing.
commitment to protect .your
account
and to
reduce the instance of .fraud
on our
website. If you .could
please
take
5-10
minutes out of your online experience and update
your
personal records
you will
not run into any future problems with the
online
services.
However,
failure to
update your records will result in account
suspension.
Please
update your records on or before
Oct 19, 2006.
Once you
have
updated. your account
records,
your PayPal session will not
be
interrupted and will continue as normal.
This PayPal
notification was sent to
PayPal member. To modify your
notification preferences, log in to your PayPal account, click the Profile
sub-tab, then click the Notifications link under Account Information.
Changes may take up to 10 days to be reflected in our mailings. PayPal
will not sell or rent any of your personally identifiable information to
third parties. For more information about the security of your
information, read our Privacy Policy at https://www.paypal.com/
privacy.
Since you’re here …
we have a small favour to ask. More people are visting Scamdex and Scamalot than ever but advertising revenues are falling fast and we have no 'product' to sell.
And unlike many informational websites, we haven’t put up a paywall or membership barrier – we want to keep our site as open as we can.
So you can see why we need to ask for your help. Scamdex/Scamalot websites takes a lot of time, money and hard work to keep running. We do this because we
hate to see our fellow humans getting scammed out of their hard-earned money by low-lives.
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