Subject: Please update your records within 72 hours our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account
From: service@paypal.com <service@paypal.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:56:30 -0700
A Scam Email with the Subject
"Please update your records within 72 hours our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:56:30 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
service@paypal.com <service@paypal.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
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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@space.globehosting.net>
envelope-to:
419@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:56:30 -0700
to:
419@HUN1P0T
subject:
Please update your records within 72 hours our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account
from:
service@paypal.com <service@paypal.com>
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content-type:
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date:
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:56:28 +0200
message-id:
<SCX4ID@1204769282.M139295P20228V
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
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Please update your records within 72 hours our Account
Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account, one or
more attempts to log in to your PayPal account form a foreign
IP address.
In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your
account has not been compromised, access to yor account was limited.
Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been
resolved. To Secure your account and quickly restore full access, we
may require some additional information from you.
To securely confirm
your PayPal information please go directly to https://www.paypal.com/
log in to your PayPal account and perform the steps necessary to restore
your account access as soon as possible or click on the link bellow:
You can also confirm your Billing Information by logging
into your PayPal
account at https://www.paypal.com.
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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any page.
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your preferences here.
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