Notification from Billing Department - PayPal Phishing Scams

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Date Reported: 8th July 2007	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Notification from Billing Department

Apparent Sender:

PayPal

Return Address:

PayPal Inc < mail@support.com >

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://mas.com.tw/.www.paypal.com/index.htm

Location:

Taiwan

Scam number:

aa-5204

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 REAL URL of the spoof website is disguised as "http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr? cmd=_security-center?update".

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.

The REAL URL of the spoof website looks nothing like the actual PayPal URL.

"Because of the inconvenience we are giving all users to repair their missing data the next two incoming transfers will be for free!"

Today we had some trouble with one of our computer systems.While the trouble appears to be minor, we are not taking any chances.We decided to take the troubled system offline and replace it with a new system.Unfortunately this caused us to lose some member data.
Please follow the link below and log into your account to make sure your information is not affected.Account balances have not been affected.

http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr? cmd=_security-center?update

Because of the inconvenience we are giving all users to repair their missing data the next two incoming transfers will be for free!
You will pay no fees for your next two incoming transfers.

Protect Your Password

Never give your password to anyone and only log in on PayPal's website.If anyone asks for your password, please follow the Security Tips instructions on the PayPal website.

Thank you for using PayPal!

PayPal Email ID PP105

Website:

Spoof website not online at time of report...

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