This email with the subject
"INFORMATION:Protect Your Account Info"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Sat, 13 Jan 2007 06:40:50 -0800
and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"PayPal Inc." <service@paypal.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
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Scam Analysis
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 you see
email which you consider to have personally identifiable information (PII), or that is for a bona-fide business or person
or for some other reason, use this form to notify us.
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SPAM, via an unpublished 'Honeypot' email address.
Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the PayPal
community we have issued this warning message.
It has come to our attention that your account information needs to be updated due to inactive accounts, frauds and spoof reports.
If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and renew your records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.However, failure to update your records will result in account deletation.
Once you have updated your account records your PayPal will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
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, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the footer of any page.
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PayPal Email ID PP120
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 URL ( https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/ ) to be sure you are on the real PayPal site.
PayPal will never ask you to enter your password in an email.
