An
Email with the Subject "Important: We noticed unusual activity in your PayPal account" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sat, 05 Jul 2014 03:23:41 -0700
and has been classified as a Phishing, ID Theft Scam Email.
The sender shows as PayPal <PayPal@account-update-inc.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.
Scam TagCloud
paypalip addressactivitylockedaccountinc.accessmail will dear
NO CHART DATA - EMAIL HAS NOT YET BEEN ANALYSED
Scam Email Headers
This a (redacted) view of the raw email headers of this scam email.
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) has been suppressed, but can be
supplied as received to appropriate investigating or law enforcement agencies on request.
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
Community Action - SPAM/non-Scam Report
Occasionally, incorrectly categorized emails get into the Scamdex Scam Email Database and need to be removed. If this
email has Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or is, in your opinion, from a bona-fide entity, let us know.
Scamdex will, as soon as is practicable, take-down any emails that in our opinion should not
be in our database. Note that ALL emails in the Scamdex Scam Email Database were received as Unsolicited Commercial Email, aka UCE or
SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
Information Regarding Your account:
Dear PayPal Member!
Attention! Your PayPal account has been violated!
Someone with ip address 86.34.211.83 tried to access your personal
account!
Please click the link below and
enter your account information to confirm that you are not currently away. You have 3 days to confirm account
information or your account will be locked.
Click here to
activate your account
You can also confirm your email address by logging into your PayPal account at