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Update Your Account

PayPal


 

 
Scam Report
Date Reported: 29th April 2010 Whats this? Risk Level: MEDIUM Whats this?
 
Details
 
Email Subject:
 Update Your Account
Apparent Sender:
  PayPal Whats this?
Return Address:
 PayPalservice@paypal.co.uk Whats this?
Email Format:  HTML Whats this?
 
URL of Web Content:
 http://74.117.232.31/~mailboxpos/media/www.paypal.
 co.uk.cgi-bin.websc.htm?cmd=_login-submit&dispatch
 X85d80a13c0db1f1ff80d546411d7f8a8350c132bc41e0934c
 fc023d4e8f9e5
  Whats this?
Anchor text of URLs:
 1) http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr Whats this?
Location:
 Location not available Whats this?
 
Scam number:
 9742-127873-364673
 
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!


  • The spoof website this email links to was not online at time of this report, but variations of the scam which link to working websites are bound to exist, so be wary! The website may have been taken down or disabled by the hosts, but quite often these websites are hosted on the personal computer of the phishers, so may only be online at certain times.


     
Content
 
 
Dear PayPal Member,

It has come to our attention that your PayPal
Billing Information records are out of date.
That requires you to update the Billing
Information.
Failure to update your records will result in
account termination.
Please update your records in maximum 24
hours.
Once you have updated them, your PayPal
session will not be interrupted and will
continue as normal.

Please follow the link below and update your
account information:

http://www.paypal...



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