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An Email with the Subject "Your payment from john@johnparkin.wanadoo.co.uk will be cancelled in 2 days!" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:14:03 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as PayPal <paypal@service.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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Dear Customer,
On Mar. 29, 2008 you received 350.00 GBP from john@johnparkin.wanadoo.co.uk. We automatically cancel unclaimed payments 30 days after receipt, so if you do not claim your money by Apr. 12, 2008, this payment will be cancelled.
To view the details of this transaction, click the link below. Then, click the Details link in the Details column of this transaction.
https://www.paypal.com/row/vst/id=1S9703109D1380943
To claim your money before this payment is cancelled, log in to your PayPal account and click on the History subtab. Click on Accept or Deny in the Action column of the transaction in question.
You need to manually claim these funds because:
Your Payment Receiving Preferences are set to manually accept or deny this type of payment.
This payment was funded with a credit or debit card and you have not yet upgraded to a Premier account or accepted this funding source.You can only accept monthly and up to 5 credit or debit card payments annually with a Personal account.
If you have questions about this transaction, log in to your PayPal account and click on the History subtab. Click the Details link of the transaction in question for more information, or click on the Action to accept or deny this payment.
The PayPal Team
Sincerely,
PayPal
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