Paypal Confirm Your Information! - Spoof Email Phishing Scam
21st February 2004

" Dear Customer, This is a reminder that we need you to confirm your information. This is a recent measure to protect our customers. "...

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This spoof Paypal email (see image below) is an entire forged Paypal page which looks very convincing.

The email contains instructions to confirm your account details using a disguised link. The link will open a forged Paypal web form which requires a multitude of personal and financial information (see image below).

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 bogus page URL (http://210.78.22.113/verify.html) resolves to JiTong Shanghai Communications (China) as have two other recent email scams.

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