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
 


 

Update Your Account

PayPal


 

 
Scam Report
Date Reported: 2nd June 2010 Whats this? Risk Level: MEDIUM-HIGH Whats this?
 
Details
 
Email Subject:
 Update Your Account
Apparent Sender:
  PayPal Whats this?
Return Address:
 service@paypal.co.uk Whats this?
Email Format:  HTML Whats this?
 
URL of Web Content:
 http://textureninja.com/p.htm?cmd=_login-submit&am
 p;dispatchX85d80a13c0db1f1ff80d546411d7f8a8350c132
 bc41e0934cfc023d4e8f9e5
  Whats this?
Anchor text of URLs:
 1) http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr Whats this?
Location:
 Location not available Whats this?
 
Scam number:
 10514-139074-381025
 
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 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Billing Information records are out of date.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.pa...



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.