An
Email with the Subject "Dear PayPal Inc. account holder," was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:40:05 -0700
and has been classified as a Phishing, ID Theft Scam Email.
The sender shows as PayPal Inc.<online-service@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.
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:] => adam@scamdex.com
[delivery-date:] => Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:40:05 -0700
[received:] => Array
(
[0] => from [218.108.50.10] (helo=xzdexchange.newgrand.cn)by bartok.o7e.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68)(envelope-from )id 1IdZMK-0002S8-38for adam@scamdex.com; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:40:05 -0700
[1] => from service ([66.112.62.161] RDNS failed) by xzdexchange.newgrand.cn with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 06:40:32 +0800
)
[reply-to:] => online-service@paypal.com
[from:] => PayPal Inc.
[subject:] => Dear PayPal Inc. account holder,
[date:] => Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:31:38 -0500
[mime-version:] => 1.0
[content-type:] => text/html;charset="Windows-1251"
[content-transfer-encoding:] => 7bit
[x-priority:] => 3
[x-msmail-priority:] => Normal
[x-mailer:] => Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
[x-mimeole:] => Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
[bcc:] =>
[x-uid:] =>
[x-originalarrivaltime:] => 04 Oct 2007 22:40:33.0484 (UTC) FILETIME=[930C20C0:01C806D7]
[x-spam-status:] => No, score=8.5
[x-spam-score:] => 85
[x-spam-bar:] => ++++++++
[x-spam-flag:] => NO
[message-id:] =>
[x-scamdex-scores:] => S:43 P:50 A:48 L:38 E:46 G:38
[x-scamdex-classtype:] => P
[x-scamdex-classscore:] => 50
[x-scamdex-totscore:] => 263
[x-scamdex-kw:] => access,account,assistance,inc.,login,paypal,service,verify
[x-scamdex-em:] => online-service@paypal.com
[x-scamdex-dir:] => P
[x-scamdex-id:] => P1204769290.M60581P20228V
[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 recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your PayPal Inc.
account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third-party.
Protecting the security of your account and of the PayPal Inc. network
is our primary concern. Therefore, as a preventative measure, we
have temporarily limited access to sensitive account features.
To restore your account access, please login and verify your profile.
To get started, please click the link below:
CLICK HERE
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate
your assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire
PayPal System
