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Paypal - Verify Your Identity
1st April 2004

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Report Summary
Date Reported
1st April 2004
Apparent Sender
Paypal
Return Address
verification@paypal.com
Subject
Verify your identity
Format
HTML
Method
disguised link leads to bogus web content
Bogus Web Content?
Yes
URL of web content
Spoofed URL http://www.paypal.com/ but true URL may be http://210.14.228.66/sr/ ORhttp://210.118.170.142/img/verify.htm
RISK LEVEL
Medium
WARNINGS

1. Exploits URL Spoofing (canonicalisation) in Internet Explorer browsers - run Windows Update to ensure your browser is patched.

 

" Dear paypal user, We would like to inform you that we are upgrading our server to install a better protection software. "...

 

This spoof Paypal email (see image below) is in HTML format and includes a link which has been disguised using HTML code to look like a genuine link to Paypal.com.

The email looks very authentic and this is achieved by calling up Paypal's own code and graphics from directly from their servers. Users could be forgiven for thinking that it is genuine.

The link will actually take you to bogus web content which located on a server owned by Beijing Online Communication Technology Limited in China. Paypal are very good at having bogus content removed very quickly, and the bogus web page had been removed by the time we had received the first report of this spoof. As with most spoof emails, it will no doubt resurface in a day or two with the bogus content hosted at a different location.

 

The Spoof Email ...

Paypal - Verify Your Identity - Spoof Email Phishing Scam

 

The forged Paypal web page ...

Paypal - Verify Your Identity forged web page.

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