This Email with the Subject "Alert ! Update Your PayPal Account ." was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:10:36 -0800 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as Service@PayPal.Com <Service@PayPal.Com>,
although that address was probably spoofed. We recommend that you do not attempt to 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 Tag Cloud
assistancepaypalpaypal.comverificationendedpasswordwinsafeaccountnotificationrecordsserviceinternetaccessverifysecuresentonlinemailreference will security(e.g. internet explorer o...(https://www.paypal.com/us/)https://www.paypal.com/us/.https://www.paypal.com/us/)https://www.paypal.com/us...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 agencies.
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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.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
Assistance
It has come to our attention that your 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 until January 30, 2008 your account considered as suspension.
Please update your records as soon as this email being sent.
Our system requires further account
verification.
Case ID Number: PP-462-805-057
Once you have updated your account records, your session will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal.
as
soon as possible. Allowing your account access to remain
limited for an extended period of
time may result in further limitations on
the use of your account and possible account
closure.
Click here to update
your account
You can also confirm your identity by logging into your PayPal account
at
https://www.paypal.com/us/.
and you will be directed to the verifying page.
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 PP64582
Protect Your Account
Info
Make sure you never provide your
password to fraudulent websites.
To safely and securely access the PayPal
website or your account, open a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape)
and type in the PayPal URL (https://www.paypal.com/us/) to be sure you are on the real
PayPal site.
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 https://www.paypal.com/us/securitytips
Protect Your
Password
You should never give your PayPal password to anyone, including PayPal
employees.
