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An Email with the Subject "Attention! Your PayPal account has been violated!" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Wed, 07 May 2008 07:24:00 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as PayPal Billing Center <secure-activation@paypal.center.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.
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Protect Your Account Info
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Information Regarding Your account:
Dear PayPal Member:
Attention! Your PayPal
account has been violated!
Someone with ip address
64.225.126.64 tried to access your personal account!
Please click the link below and enter your account information
to confirm that you are not currently away. You have 3 days to confirm
account information or your account will be locked.
Click here to activate your account
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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.
PayPal Email ID PP508