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An Email with the Subject "Urgent Notice: Paypal Limited" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:57:57 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "Paypal"<cust_serv@online-paypalsecurity.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.
Dear PayPal customer, During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedure we have detected a slight error in your billing information. This might be due to the following reasons: 1. A recent change in your personal information (ie. change of address, email address) 2. An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due to an internal error within our systems. Please verify your information. To do this we have attached a form to this email. Please download the form and follow the instructions on your screen. NOTE: The form needs to be opened in a modern browser which has javascript enabled (ex: Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3, Safari 3, Opera 9) We are requesting this information to verify and protect your identity. This is in order to prevent the illegal activity of PayPal accounts. Please do not reply to this email. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Sincerely, PayPal Security Team. PayPal Email ID PP836l Email ID PP836