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Date Reported: 3rd July 2009 |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
Notification : Update Your Account Information |
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Apparent Sender: |
PayPal |
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Return Address: |
services@intl.ipaypal.com |
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Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://www.caralu.nl/images/www.paypal.com/www.pay pal.com/cgi-bin/webscrcmd=_home-customer&nav=1 /aspID bb2e15f32dd074g90et6239b866ae3en/index.php |
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Anchor text of URLs: |
1) Click Here To Verify Your Account Information, 2) Click Here To Verify Your Account Information |
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Location: |
Location not available |
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Scam number: |
2264-31108-194261 |
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Comments: |
- Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at PayPal by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
- PayPal never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.
- The spoof website this email links to was not online at time of this report, but variations of the scam which link to working websites are bound to exist, so be wary! The website may have been taken down or disabled by the hosts, but quite often these websites are hosted on the personal computer of the phishers, so may only be online at certain times.
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Information Regarding Your Account:
Dear PayPal Member:
We have noticed several attempts of fraud. Seems like a third party tried to access your account. You are able to log into your account but all your payments are suspended untill you verify your personal information. PayPal works day and night to help keep your identity safe. That's why it has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be verified as part of our continuing commitment t...
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Website: |
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Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 404 |