A Scam Email with the Subject
"PayPal - Update Your Account Information"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:26:50 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"PayPal" <paypal@services.fr>,
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:
<paypal@services.fr>
envelope-to:
scams@HUN1P0T,scamdex@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:54:29 -0700
from:
"PayPal" <paypal@services.fr>
subject:
PayPal - Update Your Account Information
date:
Sat, 5 Apr 2008 21:26:32 +0200
mime-version:
1.0
content-type:
text/html;charset="Windows-1251"
content-transfer-encoding:
7bit
to:
undisclosed-recipients:;
message-id:
REIDs3x1207778069.H927666P26865.-S0X:2,S-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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
We are sorry to inform you that due to our recent security improvements you
must
confirm your account information in order to keep it running in a perfect
condition.
You are requested by PayPal to
Log In and to verify all
the requested information.
Please notice that submiting wrong information may lead to PayPal account
removal.
We know that is an inconvinience to you, but please understand that this is
a very
important security measure for us for keeping your account safe and secure.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us at any time
security@paypal.com
You can confirm your account information by clicking the link bellow: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/login
Best Regards
PayPal Account Mentainance Team.
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