An
Email with the Subject "FW: Attention PayPal Online Client" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:32:31 -0800
and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email.
The sender shows as Peter Cursi <websurferpete@hotmail.com>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in
this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be
added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
Scam TagCloud
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 investigating or law enforcement agencies on request.
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[from:] => Peter Cursi
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[subject:] => FW: Attention PayPal Online Client
[importance:] => Normal
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[x-originalarrivaltime:] => 05 Mar 2009 22:32:31.0523 (UTC) FILETIME=[45C13730:01C99DE2]
[x-spam-status:] => No, score=-1.1
[x-spam-score:] => -10
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[x-scamdex-em:] => service@email.payp
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[x-scamdex-id:] => B1236292351.H107566P12733
[x-scamdex-copyright:] => This Email is Copyright Scamdex.com 2009, Reproduction Prohibited
)
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
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March 2009
Attention PayPal Online Client:
You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your PayPal account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter.
If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your PayPal account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.
Please login into your PayPal Online account and complete verification process
We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you and we would like to thank you for your cooperation as we review this matter.
Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page. To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML, update your preferences here .
