Subject: IMPORTANT: Update your PayPal account informations
From: "PayPal " <service@paypal.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:10:13 -0700
A Scam Email with the Subject
"IMPORTANT: Update your PayPal account informations"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:10:13 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"PayPal " <service@paypal.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
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:
Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:10:34 -0700
from:
"PayPal " <service@paypal.com>
reply-to:
"PayPal " <service@paypal.com>
to:
submitted@HUN1P0T
subject:
IMPORTANT: Update your PayPal account informations
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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the
PayPal system. We recently noticed the following issue on your account:
Unusual account activity has made it necessary to limit sensitive account
features
until additional verification information can be collected.
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.
Please understand that this is a
security
measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologize for
any
inconvenience.
If you choose to ignore our request, you
leave us no choice but to
temporary suspend your account.
Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department.
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