A Scam Email with the Subject
"Notification of Limited Account Access"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:54:15 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"=?windows-1251?B?UGF5UGFs?=" <service@paypal.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
assistancepaypal.compaypalloginip addresslockedpasswordwinsafeaccountserviceinternetaccesssecuresentmail will security(e.g. internet explorer o...(http://paypal.com/)dearhttp://www.paypal.com/cgi...http://paypal.com/)https://www.paypal.com/us...for assistancefs
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:
<service@paypal.com>
envelope-to:
submitted@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:54:15 -0700
received:
from [80.218.77.141] (helo=192.168.2.100)by bartok.HUN1P0T with smtp (Exim 4.63)(envelope-from <service@paypal.com>)id 1HxEVL-0000Jb-1hfor submitted@HUN1P0T; Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:54:15 -0700
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
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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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.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 149.225.126.87 tried to
access your personal account!
Please click the link
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or your account will be locked.
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to
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footer of any page.
PayPal Email ID PP059
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