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IMPORTANT: Security measures, update your records!

Date Reported: 20th October 2007

Risk Level: MEDIUM

Apparent Sender:

PayPal

Return Address:

Paypal < update@accounts.paypal.co.uk >

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://www.tchayat.org/userimages/security.html

Location:

IL, US

Detailed server information:

www.tchayat.org detailed server information

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 REAL URL of the spoof website looks nothing like the actual PayPal URL.

Email:

"This e-mail was sent to you because we have detected an error in your billing information on file with Paypal during our regular schedule account maintenance and verification."

Dear PayPal Member,

This e-mail was sent to you because we have detected an error in your billing information on file with Paypal during our regular schedule account maintenance and verification. This might be due to either following reasons:

A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address).
Submitting invalid information during the initial sign up process.
An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due an internal error with our processors.

Click or copy into your browser the link below and confirm your Paypal account information, otherwise your Paypal Account access will become restricted:

http://www.tchayat.org/userimages/ security.html

Thank you for your patience as we work together to protect your account

Sincerely,

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PayPal, Security Advisor. Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.

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