New email address added to your PayPal account

Another Spoof Email and Phishing Scam report by MillerSmiles.co.uk - click this image to go to our home page.

New email address added to your PayPal account
25th October 2004

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

Report Summary
Date Reported	25th October 2004
Apparent Sender	PayPal
Return Address	PayPal <aw-service@paypal.com>
Subject	New email address added to your PayPal account
Format	HTML (Disguised as text)
Method	Spoof email links to a spoof webpage where victim is prompted to enter their details believing the site is genuine. Details are then forwarded to a local script and captured.
Bogus Web Content?	Yes
URL of web content	http://www.mainpage-new-removed.us/nooo
RISK LEVEL	MEDIUM
WARNINGS	1. Email claims to be from PayPal asking you to confirm your account. Link takes you to spoof login page. If you try to login your details will be captured and forwarded buy a script to the scammers. 2. PayPal never send users emails requesting details in this way. 3. URL is disguised as https://www.paypal.com/row/wf/f=ap_email 4. URL traced to a server in San Jose, USA 5. Email is designed to look like text, but is actually HTML which is used to disguised the spoof website URL. 6. Spoof URL looks secure but it isn't!

" You have added laptopseller@yahoo.com as a new email address for your PayPal 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.

The Spoof Email ...

You have added laptopseller@yahoo.com as a new email address for your
PayPal account.

If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with
your account, please contact PayPal customer service at:

https://www.paypal.com/row/wf/f=ap_email

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be
answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the
"Help" link in the header of any page.

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in the PayPal URL every time you log in to your account.

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PayPal Email ID PP007

The Spoof Website ...


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New email address added to your PayPal account 25th October 2004

New email address added to your PayPal account
25th October 2004