An
Email with the Subject "Reward from PayPal" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:31:48 -0800
and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email.
The sender shows as PayPal <reward@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
paypalpaypal.comcreditcontactcongratulationsaccountexpandcustomerserviceinc.processcustomsecureonlinereference will (87051203)dear
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:] => cj@scamdex.com
[delivery-date:] => Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:31:48 -0800
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[1] => from halfeae by vps.half-a-second.com with local (Exim 4.63)(envelope-from )id 1HHFY1-00012D-U5for cj@scamdex.com; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:31:30 -0500
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[to:] => cj@scamdex.com
[subject:] => Reward from PayPal
[from:] => PayPal
[reply-to:] =>
[mime-version:] => 1.0
[content-type:] => text/html
[content-transfer-encoding:] => 8bit
[x-mailer:] =>
[date:] => Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:31:29 -0500
[x-antiabuse:] => Array
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[0] => This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
[1] => Primary Hostname - vps.half-a-second.com
[2] => Original Domain - scamdex.com
[3] => Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32003 504] / [47 12]
[4] => Sender Address Domain - vps.half-a-second.com
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[x-source:] =>
[x-source-args:] =>
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[message-id:] => REIDs3x1204769279.M418443P20228V-S3X
[x-scamdex-scores:] => S:38 P:42 A:43 L:38 E:43 G:36
[x-scamdex-classtype:] => E
[x-scamdex-classscore:] => 43
[x-scamdex-totscore:] => 240
[x-scamdex-kw:] => account,congratulations,contact,credit,customer,expan,inc.,paypal,process,report,service
[x-scamdex-dir:] => A
[x-scamdex-id:] => A1204769279.M418443P20228V
[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'
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You have been chosen by our online
department to take part in our quick and easy
online
departament. In return we will credit $20 to
your account - Just for your time! Helping us
better understand how our customers feel benefits everyone.
With the information collected we can decide to
direct a number of changes to improve and expand our
online service.
We kindly ask you to spare two minutes of your
time in taking part with this unique offer!
SERVICE: PayPal Reward
Survey EXPIRATION:
February - 15 - 2007
Confirm Now your
$20 Reward Survey with PayPal Reward
services.
The information you provide us is all non-sensitive
and
anonymous No part of it is handed down to any third
party
groups.
It will be stored in our secure database for
maximum of 3 days while we process the results of this
nationwide survey.
Please do not reply to this message. For any
inquiries,
contact Customer Service.
Document Reference: (87051203).
Copyright 2001
- 2007,PayPal Inc. All rights reserved.
Dear PayPal
Customer,
CONGRATULATIONS!
You have been chosen by our online
department to take part in our quick and easy
online
departament. In return we will credit $20 to
your account - Just for your time! Helping us
better understand how our customers feel benefits everyone.
With the information collected we can decide to
direct a number of changes to improve and expand our
online service.
We kindly ask you to spare two minutes of your
time in taking part with this unique offer!
SERVICE: PayPal Reward
Survey EXPIRATION:
February - 15 - 2007
Confirm Now your
$20 Reward Survey with PayPal Reward
services.
The information you provide us is all non-sensitive
and
anonymous No part of it is handed down to any third
party
groups.
It will be stored in our secure database for
maximum of 3 days while we process the results of this
nationwide survey.
Please do not reply to this message. For any
inquiries,
contact Customer Service.
Document Reference: (87051203).
Copyright 2001
- 2007,PayPal Inc. All rights reserved.
