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An Email with the Subject "Account Review Department" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:23:31 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "PayPal" <customers@pp2.rp.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 Member,
Our security system has detected unusual charges to a credit card linked to your PayPal account.
Access to your account was limited for the following reason:
There are activities of which someone tried to access your PayPal account without
your permission. To ensure greater security, we have limited access to your account. We have sent
you an attachment which contains all the necessary steps in order to restore your account access.
Please download and open it in your browser.
(The locator for this issue is PP-868-683-506)
We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this
is a security measure intended to protect you and your account. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Thank you,
PayPal's Account Review Department