Notification - Account Review - PayPal Phishing Scams

PayPal


Date Reported: 5th November 2015	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Notification - Account Review

Apparent Sender:

PayPal

Return Address:

service@verifylimited.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://helpdesk.gardnerdenver.com/api/.I/.index.ht
ml?0e40b7fef616546543dk5646c8w2.k9fe683h682b565465
46hg938.b7fef

Anchor text of URLs:

1)
https://www.paypal.co.uk/cgi-bin/restore_acco
unt_access

Location:

QUINCY, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES

Scam number:

24250-102080-324947

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 anchor text appears as a legitimate URL, but don't be fooled - clicking on it will take you to a phishing site!

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.

THIS EMAIL WILL BE BRIEF. WE WOULD
APPRECIATE YOUR PROMPT ATTENTION TO THIS
MATTER.
-------------------------

PayPal is constantly working to ensure
security by regularly screening the accounts
in our system. We recently reviewed
your account and made adjustments resulting
in the following changes.

Unfortunately, access to your account has
been limited.

Use the following link to restore your
account access:

https://www.paypal.co.uk/cgi-bin/restore_a..
.

Website:

Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 404

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