Subject: Attention! Your PayPal Account was Limited!
From: PayPal Billing Departament
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:10:55 -0700
A Scam Email with the Subject
"Attention! Your PayPal Account was Limited!"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:10:55 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
PayPal Billing Departament ,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
paypalpaypal.comloginpasswordsafeaccountrecordsserviceinternetaccesssecuremailsecurity( tos )(e.g. internet explorer o...(http://paypal.com/)dearhttp://www.paypal.com/cgi...http://paypal.com/)https://www.paypal.com/us...fs
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.
Received: from mxout.active24.com ([213.188.134.30] helo=sharedrelay01.active24.com) by fire.newsblaze.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <postmaster@myaccount.nu>) id 1LzJrW-0005dH-Tl for scams@scamdex.com; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:10:55 -0700
Received: from fenix-frontend01 (unknown [192.168.18.100]) by sharedrelay01.active24.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8558213182D for <scams@scamdex.com>; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:10:56 +0200 (CEST)
Received: by fenix-frontend01 (Postfix, from userid 21366) id 3C5F76FCE7; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:10:55 +0200 (CEST)
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
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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
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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
Dear Member it has come to our attention that your PayPal
biling information are out of date. This require you to
billing information as soon as possible. This billing update is
also a new PayPal security statement which goes according
to the established norms on our terms of service ( TOS ) to
redice the instance of fraud on our website.
Please update your records on or before June 14.2008. A
failure to update your records may result a suspention of your account.
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 login page (http://paypal.com/) to be sure you are
on the real PayPal site.
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.
