Subject: To securely confirm your PayPal information please
From: PayPal Security Information <account@paypal.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:45:06 -0700
A Scam Email with the Subject
"To securely confirm your PayPal information please"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:45:06 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
PayPal Security Information <account@paypal.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
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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:
<kevin@simon-tech.homelinux.com>
envelope-to:
ubmitted@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:45:06 -0700
date:
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:36:26 +0800
to:
ubmitted@HUN1P0T
subject:
To securely confirm your PayPal information please
from:
PayPal Security Information <account@paypal.com>
content-type:
text/html
message-id:
REIDs3x1205734258.M706278P2523V-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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
Please update your records within 72 hours our Account
Review Team identified some unusual activity in your
account, one or
more attempts to log in to your PayPal account form a
foreign
IP address.
In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure
that your
account has not been compromised, access to yor account was
limited.
Your account access will remain limited until this issue
has been
resolved. To Secure your account and quickly restore full
access, we
may require some additional information from you.
To securely confirm
your PayPal information please go directly to https://www.paypal.com/
log in to your PayPal account and perform the steps necessary to
restore
your account access as soon as possible or click on the link
bellow:
You can also confirm your Billing Information by logging
into your PayPal
account at https://www.paypal.com/us/.
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.
To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML,
update
your preferences here.
PayPal Email ID PP468
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/us/) to be
sure you are on the real PayPal site.
PayPal will never ask you
to
enter your password in an email.
For more information on
protecting
yourself from fraud, please review our Security Tips at
https://www.paypal.com/us/securitytips
Protect Your
Password
You should never
give your PayPal password to anyone, including PayPal
employees.
