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Verify your identity
4th September 2004

please forward any scams you've received to spoof@millersmiles.co.uk

Report Summary
Date Reported
4th September 2004
Apparent Sender
Paypal
Return Address
PayPal <verification@paypal.com>
Subject
Verify your identity
Format
HTML
Method

Spoof webpage captures entered details and forwards them using a local script.

Bogus Web Content?
Yes
URL of web content

http://196.15.171.42/sys/


traced to a server in Windhoek, Africa.

RISK LEVEL
MEDIUM
WARNINGS

1. Email requests you visit spoof Paypal site to keep your acount active and prevent suspension by entering your details. Details are captured by the spoof webpage and forwarded to a local script.

2. Paypal never send out emails to their users requesting details like this.

 

" Dear paypal user, We would like to inform you that we are upgrading our server to install a better protection software. So please click here and fill in the registration form again to renew your account."...

If you have received this email, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content or the same but with the fake page(s) hosted by a different provider. Also, once you have received one of these hoaxes, it is also common place to receive at least another one and usually a day or two after the first, although not necessarily from the same apparent sender.

 

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