A Scam Email with the Subject
"YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED!"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:37:00 -0700 and has been classified as a
Auction/Escrow Scam.
The sender was
service@paypal.com <SERVICE PAYPAL>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
foreignpaypal.compaypallog inloginip addresssuspendthird partyverificationebayendednationalsafeaccounttransactionserviceaccessverifysentbuyselluser will securityebay com
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:
<nobody@cp33.myhostcenter.com>
envelope-to:
scamdex@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:37:00 -0700
to:
scamdex@HUN1P0T
subject:
YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED!
from:
service@paypal.com <SERVICE PAYPAL>
mime-version:
1.0
content-type:
text/html
content-transfer-encoding:
8bit
date:
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:30:10 -0400
message-id:
REIDs3x1239839793.M491215P32690V-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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
At Paypal, we want to increase your security and comfort level with every transaction. From our buyer and seller protection policies to our verification and reputation system, we'll help to keep you safe.
We have recently noticed one or more attempts to log into your Paypal account from a foreign IP address and we have reasons to believe that your account may have been hacked by a third party without your authorization.
If you recently accessed your account while travelling, the unusual login in attempts may have been initiated by you. However, if you are the rightful holder of the account, click on the link below to log into your account within the above mentioned period.
If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to temporaly suspend your account.
We ask that you allow at least 72 hours for the case to be investigated and we strongly recommend to verify your account in that time.
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