the last Alert to update your information - paypal Phishing Scams

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Date Reported: 7th December 2011	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

the last Alert to update your information

Apparent Sender:

paypal

Return Address:

Not found

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://paypal.com.cgi-bin.webscr.cmd.login-submit.
dispatch.5885.celebcraft.com/webscr.html?cmd=_logi
n-run&dispatchX85d80a13c0db1f998ca054efbdf2c29878a
435fe324eec2511727fbf3e9efca724566cd80f602f20e96cc
d462a5effa724566cd80f602f20e96ccd462a5eff

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Link Now

Location:

Scam number:

19368-309044-678121

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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aypal_logo.gif" alt=PayPal border=0>

Thanks for joining PayPal.

Was discovered that the account did not pass
on the stage of the update has been sent
following message from paypal
customers request re-update your account
information before it is suspended. Updated
for 10 days before the passage of
time to send the message

Link Now

Here’s what we have on file for you. Take a
second to confirm we have your corr...

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Website:

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