An
Email with the Subject "Attention! Your PayPal account has been violated!" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Tue, 09 May 2006 01:22:05 -0700
and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email.
The sender shows as "PayPal"<confirm@paypal.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
assistanceboxpaypalpaypal.comlog inloginip addresslockedpasswordsafeaccountinternetaccesssecuresentmail will security(http://paypal.com/)dearhttp://www.paypal.com/.http://paypal.com/)https://www.paypal.com/us...for assistance
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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[return-path:] =>
[envelope-to:] => scams@scamdex.com
[delivery-date:] => Tue, 09 May 2006 01:22:05 -0700
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[1] => from User (adsl86-34-8-40.romtelecom.net [86.34.8.40] (may be forged))(authenticated bits=0)by mail02.digitalcanvas-hosting.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k498IVuS080442;Tue, 9 May 2006 01:18:35 -0700 (PDT)
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[message-id:] => <200605090818.k498IVuS080442@mail02.digitalcanvas-hosting.com>
[reply-to:] =>
[from:] => "PayPal"
[subject:] => Attention! Your PayPal account has been violated!
[date:] => Tue, 9 May 2006 11:18:49 +0300
[mime-version:] => 1.0
[content-type:] => text/html;charset="Windows-1251"
[content-transfer-encoding:] => 7bit
[x-priority:] => 3
[x-msmail-priority:] => Normal
[x-mailer:] => Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
[x-mimeole:] => Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
[to:] => undisclosed-recipients:;
[status:] => RO
[x-status:] =>
[x-keywords:] =>
[x-uid:] => 17229
[x-scamdex-scores:] => S:48 P:56 A:55 L:42 E:46 G:41
[x-scamdex-classtype:] => P
[x-scamdex-classscore:] => 56
[x-scamdex-totscore:] => 288
[x-scamdex-kw:] => IP address,access,account,assistance,box,internet,locked,log in,login,password,paypal,safe,sent,user
[x-scamdex-dir:] => P
[x-scamdex-id:] => P1204769268.M95977P20228V
[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'
Community Action - SPAM/non-Scam Report
Occasionally, incorrectly categorized emails get into the Scamdex Scam Email Database and need to be removed. If this
email has Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or is, in your opinion, from a bona-fide entity, let us know.
Scamdex will, as soon as is practicable, take-down any emails that in our opinion should not
be in our database. Note that ALL emails in the Scamdex Scam Email Database were received as Unsolicited Commercial Email, aka UCE or
SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
Information Regarding Your account:
Dear PayPal Member!
Attention! Your PayPal account has been violated!
Someone with ip address 81.180.1.219 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
You can also confirm your email address by logging into your PayPal account at
http://www.paypal.com/. Click on the "Confirm email" link in the
Activate Account box and then enter this confirmation number: 1091-8871-4911-9803-3995
Thank you for using
PayPal! The PayPal Team
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be
answered. For assistance,
log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the
footer of any
page.
PayPal Email ID PP294
Protect Your Account Info
Make sure you never provide your password to fraudulent websites.
To
safely and securely access the PayPal website or your account, open a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or
Netscape) and type in the PayPal login page (http://paypal.com/) to be sure you are on the real PayPal
site.
PayPal will never ask you to enter your password in an email.
For more information on protecting
yourself from fraud, please review our Security Tips at https://www.paypal.com/us/securitytips
Protect Your Password
You should never give your PayPal password to anyone.
