Subject: Unauthorized access to your PayPal account !
From: "PayPal" <service@paypal.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:01:04 -0700
A Scam Email with the Subject
"Unauthorized access to your PayPal account !"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:01:04 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"PayPal" <service@paypal.com>,
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.
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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for
its community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security
of your account, PayPal employs some of the most advanced
security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams
regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.
We are contacting you to remind you that on July
08, 2006 our Account Review Team identified some
unusual activity in your account. In accordance with PayPal's
User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been
compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account
access will remain limited until this issue has been
resolved.
In order to secure your account and
quickly restore full access, we may require you to
verify or update your Personal
Information. If you choose to ignore our request, you leave
us no choice but to temporary suspend your account.
Case ID Number: PP-049-681-317 This is a final
reminder to log
in to PayPal as soon as possible.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please
understand that this is a security measure meant to help
protect you and your account. We apologize for any
inconvenience.
Sincerely, PayPal Account Review Department PayPal
Email ID PP773
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.
PayPal Email ID
PP773
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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/row/) to be
sure you are on the real PayPal
site.
PayPal will never ask you to enter
your password in an email.
