An
Email with the Subject "Update Your Access" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:06:50 -0800
and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email.
The sender shows as PayPal <assistance@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
belloassistancepaypalpaypal.comloginlog increditactivityendedcontactwinsafeaccountcustomeraccessprocesscustomsecurereportuser will securityhttps://www.paypal.com/cg...
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, 30 Jan 2007 02:06:50 -0800
[received:] => Array
(
[0] => from [85.112.149.168] (helo=zhizn.fo1.hostex.no)by bartok.o7e.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)(Exim 4.63)(envelope-from )id 1HBpt3-0004ka-OWfor scams@scamdex.com; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:06:50 -0800
[1] => from starley by zhizn.fo1.hostex.no with local (Exim 4.50)id 1HBpsy-00006w-33for scams@scamdex.com; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:06:44 +0300
)
[to:] => scams@scamdex.com
[subject:] => Update Your Access
[from:] => PayPal
[reply-to:] => assistance@paypal.com
[mime-version:] => 1.0
[content-type:] => text/html
[content-transfer-encoding:] => 8bit
[x-mailer:] =>
[sender:] =>
[date:] => Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:06:44 +0300
[message-id:] => S:60 P:66 A:63 L:56 E:63 G:55
[x-scamdex-classtype:] => P
[x-scamdex-classscore:] => 66
[x-scamdex-totscore:] => 363
[x-scamdex-kw:] => \%,access,account,activity,assistance,card,contact,credit,customer,employ,ended,inc.,log in,login,paypal,process,report,safe
[x-scamdex-em:] => assistance@paypal.com
[x-scamdex-dir:] => P
[x-scamdex-id:] => P1204769274.M853957P20228V
[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.
PayPal is
committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of
customers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs some of
the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams
regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.
We are
contacting you to remind you that on 06 January 2007 our Account
Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In
accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your account
has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account
access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.
To
secure your account and quickly restore full access, we may require some
additional information from you for the following reason:
We have
been notified that a card associated with your account has been reported
as lost or stolen, or that there were additional problems with your
card.
This process is mandatory, and if not completed within
the nearest time your account or credit card may be subject for temporary
suspension.
To securely confirm your PayPal information please
click on the link bellow:
We encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to
restore your account access as soon as possible. Allowing your account
access to remain limited for an extended period of time may result in
further limitations on the use of your account and possible account
closure.
For more information about how to protect your account
please visit PayPal Security Center. We apologize for any incovenience
this may cause, and we apriciate your assistance in helping us to maintain
the integrity of the entire PayPal system.
