An Email with the Subject "Your PayPal account could be suspended" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:43:33 -0700 and has been classified as a Phishing, ID Theft Scam Email. The sender shows as "PayPal Inc." <info@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.
Dear valued PayPal member:
It has come to out attention that your
PayPal account informations needs to
be updated as . part of .our continuing. commitment
to protect .your account
and to reduce the instance of .fraud on
our website. If you .could please take
5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal
records
you will not run into any futur problems with the online services.
However, failure to update your records will result
in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before September 27, 2005.
Once you have updated.
your account records, your PayPal session will not
be interrupted and will continue as normal.
To update your PayPal records click
on the following link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run
Thank you for using Paypal !
The PayPal Update Team.
Accounts Management As outlined in our User
Agreement, PayPal will
periodically send you information about site changes and
enhancements.
Dear valued PayPal member:
It has come to out attention that your
PayPal account informations needs to
be updated as . part of .our continuing. commitment
to protect .your account
and to reduce the instance of .fraud on
our website. If you .could please take
5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal
records
you will not run into any futur problems with the online services.
However, failure to update your records will result
in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before September 27, 2005.
Once you have updated.
your account records, your PayPal session will not
be interrupted and will continue as normal.
To update your PayPal records click
on the following link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run
Thank you for using Paypal !
The PayPal Update Team.
Accounts Management As outlined in our User
Agreement, PayPal will
periodically send you information about site changes and
enhancements.