An
Email with the Subject "Unlock your account" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:36:42 -0800
and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email.
The sender shows as "PayPal"<do-not-reply@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
assistanceforeignpaypalpaypal.comlog inip addresssuspendthird partypasswordwinaccountnotificationaccessverifysecuresentmailconfidentialautomaticallyreference will security(ssl)http://www.paypal.com/sec...for assistance
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:] => submissions@scamdex.com,submitted@scamdex.com
[delivery-date:] => Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:36:43 -0800
[received:] => Array
(
[0] => from [208.112.10.193] (helo=ds98162-1)by bartok.o7e.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63)(envelope-from )id 1HGDwg-0001OM-Sl; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:36:42 -0800
[1] => from mail.deconna.com [63.169.46.98] by ds98162-1 with SMTP; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:32:09 -0500
)
[reply-to:] =>
[from:] => "PayPal"
[subject:] => Unlock your account
[date:] => Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:46:05 -0500
[mime-version:] => 1.0
[content-type:] => text/html;charset="Windows-1251"
[content-transfer-encoding:] => 7bit
[x-priority:] => 1
[x-msmail-priority:] => High
[message-id:] => reIDScdx00001204769285.M582275P20228V-S2X
[x-mailer:] => Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
[x-mimeole:] => Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
[x-scamdex-scores:] => S:54 P:62 A:57 L:49 E:55 G:48
[x-scamdex-classtype:] => P
[x-scamdex-classscore:] => 62
[x-scamdex-totscore:] => 325
[x-scamdex-kw:] => IP address,\%,access,account,assistance,employ,foreign,inc.,log in,login,notification,password,paypal,sent,suspend,third party,verify
[x-scamdex-dir:] => P
[x-scamdex-id:] => P1204769285.M582275P20228V
[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'
Community Action - SPAM/non-Scam Report
Occasionally, incorrectly categorized emails get into the Scamdex Scam Email Database and need to be removed. If this
email has Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or is, in your opinion, from a bona-fide entity, let us know.
Scamdex will, as soon as is practicable, take-down any emails that in our opinion should not
be in our database. Note that ALL emails in the Scamdex Scam Email Database were received as Unsolicited Commercial Email, aka UCE or
SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
Security Center
Advisory!
We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your
PayPal account from a
foreign IP address and we have reasons to belive that your account was
hijacked
by a third party without your authorization. If you recently accessed
your account while traveling, the unusual log in attempts
may have been initiated by you.
If you are the rightful holder of the account you must click the
link below and then complete all steps from the following page as
we try to verify your identity.
Click here to verify your
account
If you choose
to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to temporaly suspend
your account.
Thank you for using PayPal! The PayPal Team
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to
this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the
"Help" link in the footer of any page.
To receive email
notifications in plain text instead of HTML, update your preferences here.
PayPal Email ID
PP697
Protect Your Account
Info
Make sure you never provide your password
to fraudulent persons.
PayPal automatically encrypts your
confidential information using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol (SSL) with
an encryption key length of 128-bits (the highest level commercially
available).
PayPal will never ask you to enter your password in an
email.
For more information on protecting yourself from fraud,
please review our Security Tips at
http://www.paypal.com/securitytips
Protect Your
Password
You should never
give your PayPal password to anyone, including PayPal employees.
