An Email with the Subject "Your Paypal Account Could Be Suspended" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:29:27 -0800 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as PayPal<service@paypal.com>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
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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records are out of date.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 within 24 hours.
Once you have updated
your account records, your PayPal session
will not be interrupted
and will continue as normal. Failure to
update will result in
cancellation of service, Terms of Service
(TOS) violations or future
billing problems.
You must
click the link below and enter your login
information on the following page
to confirm your Billing Information records.
You can also confirm your
Billing Information by logging
into your PayPal
account at
https://www.paypal.com/us/.
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
Please do not reply to this
e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be
answered. For assistance,
log
in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help"
link in the footer of
any page.
To receive email notifications
in plain text instead of HTML, update
your preferences here.
PayPal Email ID PP468
Protect Your Account
Info
Make sure
you never provide your password to
fraudulent websites.
To safely and securely
access the PayPal
website or your account, open a new web browser (e.g.
Internet Explorer or
Netscape) and type in the PayPal URL
(https://www.paypal.com/us/) to be
sure you are on the real PayPal site.
PayPal
will never ask you to
enter your password in an email.
For more
information on protecting
yourself from fraud, please review our Security Tips at
https://www.paypal.com/us/securitytips
Protect Your Password
You should
never
give your PayPal password to anyone, including PayPal
employees.