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An Email with the Subject "Update your PayPal account." was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:20:50 -0700 and has been classified as a Phishing, ID Theft Scam Email. The sender shows as "service@paypal.com" <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.
Dear valued PayPal member:
Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the paypal
account we have issued this warning message.
It has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be
updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes
out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into
any future problems with the online service.
However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before
July 16, 2008.
Once you have updated your account records your paypal account
service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
To update your PayPal records click on the following link:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run
Thank You.
PayPal UPDATE TEAM
Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.
Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside
Dear valued PayPal member:
Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the paypal
account we have issued this warning message.
It has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be
updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes
out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into
any future problems with the online service.
However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before
July 16, 2008.
Once you have updated your account records your paypal account
service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
To update your PayPal records click on the following link:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run
Thank You.
PayPal UPDATE TEAM
Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.
Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside