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An Email with the Subject "Your Paypal account information needs to be updated" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:58:09 -0700 and has been classified as a Phishing, ID Theft Scam Email. The sender shows as PayPal Account Review <update@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 our
attention that your PayPal
account information 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 future problems with the online service.
However, failure to
update your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before March - 15 - 2007.
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/update/webscr?cmd=_login-run
Thank You.
PayPalUPDATE
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 our
attention that your PayPal®
account information 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 future problems with the online service.
However, failure to
update your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before March - 15 - 2007.
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/update/webscr?cmd=_login-run
Thank You.
PayPal® UPDATE
TEAM
Accounts Management As
outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal® will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.