An
Email with the Subject "PayPal - Secure your account" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:24:31 -0700
and has been classified as a Phishing, ID Theft Scam Email.
The sender shows as "security@PayPal.com"<security@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
paypalpaypal.comlog inactivitycontactaccountaccesssecureuser will securitydear
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.
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[delivery-date:] => Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:24:31 -0700
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[1] => from User ([136.145.110.110]) by boston2.camneely.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:24:25 -0500
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[from:] => "security@PayPal.com"
[subject:] => PayPal - Secure your account
[date:] => Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:57:37 -0400
[mime-version:] => 1.0
[content-type:] => text/html;charset="Windows-1251"
[content-transfer-encoding:] => 7bit
[x-priority:] => 3
[x-msmail-priority:] => Normal
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[0] => Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
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[x-mimeole:] => Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
[bcc:] =>
[x-originalarrivaltime:] => 29 Jul 2007 20:24:25.0403 (UTC) FILETIME=[74D0A0B0:01C7D21E]
[message-id:] =>
[x-scamdex-scores:] => S:57 P:65 A:62 L:51 E:55 G:50
[x-scamdex-classtype:] => P
[x-scamdex-classscore:] => 65
[x-scamdex-totscore:] => 340
[x-scamdex-kw:] => \%,access,account,activity,assistance,box,contact,ended,first,inc.,log in,notification,paypal,records,sell,sent,user,verify
[x-scamdex-em:] => security@PayPal.com
[x-scamdex-dir:] => P
[x-scamdex-id:] => P1204769288.M597708P20228V
[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.
We are contacting you to remind you that on 27 July 2007 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in
your account.
In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and Privacy Policy, and to ensure that your account has not been compromised yet,
access to your account was limited.
Your account access will remains limited until this issue has been resolved.
To secure your account and quickly restore full access on your account, we encourage you to log in and perform the steps
necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible by clicking the link below:
Failure to verify and/or update your personal records, or if you choose to ignore our request, may result in further
limitations or eventual account closure.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this case intended to help protecting you and your
account. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
PayPal, Inc.
P.O. Box 45950
Omaha, NE 68145
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 header of any page.
To modify your notification preferences, log in to your PayPal account, click the Profile sub-tab, then click the
Notifications link under Account Information. Changes may take up to 10 days to be reflected in our mailings. PayPal will not
sell or rent any of your personally identifiable information to third parties. For more information about the security of
your information, read our Privacy Policy at https://www.paypal.com/privacy.
We are contacting you to remind you that on 27 July 2007 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in
your account.
In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and Privacy Policy, and to ensure that your account has not been compromised yet,
access to your account was limited.
Your account access will remains limited until this issue has been resolved.
To secure your account and quickly restore full access on your account, we encourage you to log in and perform the steps
necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible by clicking the link below:
