An
Email with the Subject "Your paypal account has been limited" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:53:58 -0800
and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email.
The sender shows as "service@intl.paypal.com"<service@intl-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.
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.
EEEEEstdClass Object
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[return-path:] =>
[envelope-to:] => scamdex@scamdex.com
[delivery-date:] => Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:53:58 -0800
[received:] => Array
(
[0] => from box.ryuki-system.jp ([49.212.44.97]:42153 helo=ryuki-system.jp)by bigcat.newsblaze.com with esmtp (Exim 4.86)(envelope-from )id 1Zww4M-0001BW-0pfor scamdex@scamdex.com; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:53:58 -0800
[1] => from User (unknown [85.194.71.182])by ryuki-system.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FCE730DC5F;Fri, 13 Nov 2015 02:32:35 +0900 (JST)
)
[from:] => "service@intl.paypal.com"
[subject:] => Your paypal account has been limited
[date:] => Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:31:11 +0300
[mime-version:] => 1.0
[content-type:] => text/html;charset="Windows-1250"
[content-transfer-encoding:] => 7bit
[x-priority:] => 1
[x-msmail-priority:] => High
[x-mailer:] => Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
[x-mimeole:] => Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
[message-id:] => <20151112173235.8FCE730DC5F@ryuki-system.jp>
[to:] => undisclosed-recipients:;
)
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
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We requested information from you for the following reason:
We recently received a report of unauthorized credit card use associated
with this account. As part of our security measures, we regularly screen
activity in the PayPal system
As a precaution we have limited access to your PayPal account in order to
protect against future unauthorized transactions,
Dear PayPal Customer,
We requested information from you for the following reason:
We recently received a report of unauthorized credit card use associated
with this account. As part of our security measures, we regularly screen
activity in the PayPal system
Click here to update
your account
As a precaution we have limited access to your PayPal account in order to
protect against future unauthorized transactions,
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