Your Account is Suspended! - PayPal Phishing Scams

PayPal


Date Reported: 17th August 2006	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Your Account is Suspended!

Apparent Sender:

PayPal

Return Address:

< service@paypal.com >

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://file.kidkids.net/ws/.paypal.com/Paypal. dllSignInllpU32serId=copartnerId=siteid= pageType=24aUsingSSL=3bshowgif= favoritenav=errmsg=10/Log-In/Submit/index.php

Location:

Korea

Scam number:

aa-3247

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 "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_ login-run".

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

"Our Fraud Investigation Team recently detected suspicious activity in your account."

Dear PayPal Member,

Our comprehensive fraud-prevention program is one of the key reasons PayPal is a safe way to pay online. We believe that innovation and careful analysis is the way to beat fraud. That's why PayPal has developed industry-leading models to review every transaction, and help detect suspicious activity.

Our Fraud Investigation Team recently detected suspicious activity in your account. In order to continue to operate the PayPal service and to reduce the risk of fraud, PayPal Corp. ("PayPal" or "we") must ask you to provide us information about yourself and your credit card and/or bank account.

------------------------------------
To do so please follow the link below.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr? cmd=_login-run ---------------------------------------

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure meant to help you and protect your account. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,
PayPal Fraud Investigation Department

PayPal Email ID PP562

Website:

See our most recent scam reports

Browse our scam report archives

Search

Please send us any scam/phishing emails you have received by reporting them here

For access to our huge blacklist of domain names and to sign up to our live feed of ALL the scams we receive please take a look at our Honeytrap service

If you have received the email below, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content, such as a different subject or return address, or with the fake webpage(s) hosted on a different webserver.

We aim to report every variant of the scams we receive, so even if it appears that a scam you receive has already been reported, please submit it to us anyway.