This email with the subject
"Critical Account Information"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:28:55 -0700
and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"PayPal Review Department"<review@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.
return-path:
<review@paypal.com>
envelope-to:
419@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:28:55 -0700
from:
"PayPal Review Department"<review@paypal.com>
subject:
Critical Account Information
date:
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:28:53 +1100
mime-version:
1.0
content-type:
text/html;charset="Windows-1251"
content-transfer-encoding:
7bit
message-id:
<SCX4ID@1204769290.M89613P20228V>
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
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PayPal Email ID PP522
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