REPORT SUMMARY
Date Reported
5th March 2003
Apparent
Sender
Paypal
Subject
Your Paypal Account
is Limited
(typical far eastern
English)
Senders Address (spoofed)
info@paypal.com
Content
fake Payapl web form
(see image)
Spoofed Web page/site?
NO
Web page/site
content
N/A
Web page/site origin
URL
N/A
Identity Theft method
Web form information
is captured and
relayed to the
scammers
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5th March 2003
Below is the email that was received by some eBay/Paypal users which conned them into unwittingly giving out their critical information to fraudsters and has been supplied to us by Internet Privacy and Security Consultant Richard M Smith. For your own safety, this an image of the email, so the dangerous links and code will not work. It is shown here purely for the purpose of showing you how genuine these scams can really look.
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