An
Email with the Subject "update your account AOL" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:18:44 -0800
and has been classified as a Phishing, ID Theft Scam Email.
The sender shows as America OnlineSM <Aol@onligne.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
verificationaccountrecordscustomercustomonline will maintenancedear
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.
EEEEEstdClass Object
(
[return-path:] =>
[envelope-to:] => scamdex@scamdex.com
[delivery-date:] => Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:18:45 -0800
[received:] => Array
(
[0] => from server1.southwebhosting.com ([74.86.28.58])by chester.loopbiz.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)(Exim 4.69)(envelope-from )id 1PqPIK-0003Kg-8Zfor scamdex@scamdex.com; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:18:44 -0800
[1] => (qmail 23601 invoked by uid 48); 18 Feb 2011 07:16:41 -0500
)
[date:] => 18 Feb 2011 07:16:41 -0500
[message-id:] => <20110218121641.23600.qmail@server1.southwebhosting.com>
[to:] => scamdex@scamdex.com
[subject:] => update your account AOL
[from:] => America OnlineSM
[reply-to:] =>
[mime-version:] => 1.0
[content-type:] => text/html
[content-transfer-encoding:] => 8bit
[x-spam-status:] => No, score=1.1
[x-spam-score:] => 11
[x-spam-bar:] => +
[x-ham-report:] => Spam detection software, running on the system "chester.loopbiz.com", hasidentified this incoming email as possible spam. The original messagehas been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or labelsimilar future email. If you have any questions, seethe administrator of that system for details.Content preview: AOL Dear America OnlineSM Customer: We're writing to let youknow there is a current account verification and maintenance exercise goingon for Billing address Informations. We are sorry for any inconvenience,but we need you to update your account. [...] Content analysis details: (1.1 points, 4.0 required)pts rule name description---- ---------------------- ---------------------------------------------------0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relaydomain0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message1.1 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts
[x-spam-flag:] => NO
)
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We're
writing to let you know there is a
current account verification and maintenance
exercise
going on for Billing
address
Informations. We are sorry for any
inconvenience, but we need you to update your
account.
To update your account,
Click Here
www.aol.com/billinginformation/updates/aolinf
o/index.html.
Failure to update your
records will result in account termination. Please
update your
records within 24 hours. Once
you have...