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An Email with the Subject "PayPal Account Review Department" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Tue, 24 May 2011 03:12:45 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as <service@paypal.co.uk>.
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.
As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the paypal system.We recently contacted you after noticing an issue on your account.We requested information from you for the following reason:
Our system detected unusual charges to a credit card linked to your paypal account.
Reference Number: PP-259-187-991
To enable us rectify and clear errors ,you would have to re-confirm
your account by clicking the link provided below.
You will be provided with steps to
restore your account access. We appreciate your understanding as we work to
ensure account safety.
Click
here to re-confirm your account
Yours sincerely,
PayPal
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