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Update Your Account Information.
PayPal
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Date Reported: 14th August 2005  |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
Update Your Account Information. |
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Apparent Sender: |
PayPal |
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Return Address: |
PayPal Accounts Services < service@paypal.com > |
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| Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://paypal.branelex.com/info/index.htm |
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Location: |
NY, US |
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Scam number: |
aa-1040 |
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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/securitytips".
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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 has been chosen to look very similar to the actual PayPal URL. Do not be fooled!
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"Make sure you never provide your password to fraudulent websites.
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Protect Your Account Info
Make sure you never provide your password to fraudulent websites.
PayPal will never ask you to enter your password in an email.
For more information on protecting yourself from fraud, please review
our Security Tips at
https://www.paypal.com/us/securitytips
Protect Your Password
You should never give your PayPal password to anyone, including
PayPal employees.
Update Your Information
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It has come to our attention that your PayPal billing information
are out of date. This require you to update billing information as
soon as possible.
This billing update is also a new PayPal security statement which
goes according to the established norms on our terms of service (TOS)
to reduce the instance of fraud on our website.
Please update your records on or before August 18, 2005. A failure to
update your records may result on a suspension of your account. To
update your PayPal records click on the following link:
http://www.paypal.com/us/
This new security statement will helps us continue to offer PayPal
as a secure and cost-effective payment service. We appreciate your
cooperation and assistance.
Sincerely,
The PayPal Team
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Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and
you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your
PayPal account and choose the Help link located in the top right
corner of any PayPal page.
PayPal Email ID PP295
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