A Scam Email with the Subject
"PayPal Notification!"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:24:09 -0800 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"PayPal Service"<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.
return-path:
<service@paypal.com>
envelope-to:
submitted@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:24:10 -0800
from:
"PayPal Service"<service@paypal.com>
subject:
PayPal Notification!
date:
Tue, 6 Mar 2007 05:58:06 +0900
mime-version:
1.0
content-type:
text/html;charset="Windows-1251"
content-transfer-encoding:
7bit
message-id:
<SCX4ID@1204769284.M697433P20228V>
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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
We are
contacting you to remind you that on 19 February 2007 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.
To secure your
account and quickly restore full access, we may require some
additional information from you for the following reason:
We have been notified
that a card associated with your account
has been reported as
lost or stolen, or that there were
additional problems with your card.
To securely confirm your PayPal
information please go to your PayPal's Update Profile or click on the link bellow:
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.
To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML, update
your preferences here.
PayPal Email ID PP468
Protect 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/us/) to be
sure you are on the real PayPal site.
PayPal will never ask you to
enter your password in an email.
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, including PayPal employees.
This process is mandatory, and if not
completed within the nearest time your account or credit card may be
subject for temporary suspension.
We encourage you to
log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access
as soon as possible.
Allowing your account access to remain limited for an extended period
of time may result in
further limitations on the use of your account and possible account
closure.
