A Scam Email with the Subject
"To use this new Security System?!"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:49:26 -0700 and has been classified as a
Auction/Escrow Scam.
The sender was
"PayPal Account"<service@paypal.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
paypalpaypal.comebaysafeaccounttransactionservice will security
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:
<service@paypal.com>
envelope-to:
419@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:49:26 -0700
from:
"PayPal Account"<service@paypal.com>
subject:
To use this new Security System?!
date:
Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:46:11 +0300
mime-version:
1.0
content-type:
text/html;charset="Windows-1251"
content-transfer-encoding:
7bit
status:
RO
message-id:
reIDScdx00001204769268.M65542P20228V-S2X
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
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