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Date Reported: 19th August 2011 |
Risk Level: MEDIUM-HIGH |
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Email Subject: |
Status - Account Limited |
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Apparent Sender: |
PayPal |
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Return Address: |
Not found |
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Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://www.shenshuigang.com.cn/asp/ |
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Anchor text of URLs: |
1) http://www.paypal.co.uk/ |
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Location: |
(UNKNOWN CITY), CHINA |
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Scam number: |
18149-279779-620991 |
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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 anchor text appears as a legitimate URL, but don't be fooled - clicking on it will take you to a phishing site!
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Dear PayPal client,
You have received this email because you or someone had used your account from different locations. For security purpose, we are required to open an investigation into this matter.
In order to safeguard your account, we require that you confirm your details. To help speeed up this process, please access the following link so we can complete the verification of your PayPal Account registration information.
http://www.paypal.co.uk/
If we...
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