Phishing Scams and Phishing Reports at MillerSmiles.co.uk

     
 
Home
Search
Archives
News
Submit Scam
Articles
F.A.Q.
Forum
About Us
Contact Us
Links
 


 

Account temporary blocked
(hdferguson@aol.com)

Paypal


 

 
Scam Report
Date Reported: 19th September 2010 Whats this? Risk Level: MEDIUM-HIGH Whats this?
 
Details
 
Email Subject:
 Account temporary blocked (hdferguson@aol.com)
Apparent Sender:
 Paypal  Whats this?
Return Address:
 security@paypaI.com Whats this?
Email Format:  HTML Whats this?
 
URL of Web Content:
 http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/philosophy/1002/z
 /paypal/cgi-bin/
  Whats this?
Anchor text of URLs:
 1)
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=
_login-run, 2)
https://www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI, 3)
http://removeme.providian.com/ Whats this?
Location:
 Location not available Whats this?
 
Scam number:
 12759-174933-439896
 
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 anchor text appears as a legitimate URL, but don't be fooled - clicking on it will take you to a phishing site!


     
Content
 
 


Dear hdferguson@aol.com,

It has come to our attention that your PayPal
Billing Information
records are out of date. That requires you to
update the Billing
Information.

Please update your records in maximum 12
hours otherwise your account
will be suspended.
Once you have updated your account records,
your PayPal session will
not be interrupted and will continue as
normal. Failure to update
will result in cancellation of service, Terms
of Service (TOS)
v...



Click for full size image
 
Website:    
 

Click for full size image
 
  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.