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Protect your sensitive information.
PayPal
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Date Reported: 29th January 2008 |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
Protect your sensitive information. |
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Apparent Sender: |
PayPal |
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Return Address: |
service-update@paypal.com < zxbvsw@red.com > |
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Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://211.75.71.155/~user/ssl.htm |
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Location: |
Taiwan |
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Scam number: |
aa-6425 |
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Comments: |
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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.
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The REAL URL of the spoof website is disguised as "https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr? cmd=_login-submit".
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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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The REAL URL of the spoof website looks nothing like the actual PayPal URL.
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"We regret to inform you, that we had to lock your PayPal Access
because we have reasons to believe that your account may have been compromised by outside
parties."
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Dear member ,
We regret to inform you, that we had to lock your PayPal Access
because we have reasons to believe that your account may have been compromised by outside
parties. In order to protect your sensitive information, we temporaly suspended your account.
To reactivate your account, click on the link below and confirm your identity by completing the
secure form what will appear.
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/ webscr?cmd=_login-submit
We have seen unusual attempts for logging in regarding your personal account, therefore this
confirmation regarding your account its only for security reasons.
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Website: |
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Spoof website not online at time of report...
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