Friday, April 18, 2014

2014-04-18 Phishing Scam Alert: Important Message from PayPal

This is NOT from PayPal warning you of "PayPal Security Department noticed third party account access ..."  Take note of the URL hidden in the https://www.paypal.com link.

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Dear <recipient_address_omitted> ,

PayPal Security Department noticed third party account access therefore automatically your account has limited access to sensitive PayPal account features.

We know that this might be inconvenient for you but this temporary limitation is only for your protection.

Confirm your identity by answering security questions.

Please make sure you login as soon as possible.

https://www.paypal.com <http://b4df.com/test/seite.asp>

To help protect your account, we need to confirm that you are the account holder.

Yours sincerely,

PayPal
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Return-path: <ghxtourh@fargo.io>
Received: from herald.plexusm2.net ([unknown] [173.193.32.171])
 by vms172051.mailsrvcs.net
 (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009))
 with ESMTP id <
0N4800A628JV7HM0@vms172051.mailsrvcs.net> for
 <recipient_address_omitted>; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 07:40:43 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from nsc66.147.116-148.newsouth.net
 ([66.147.116.148]:29395 helo=fargo.io) by herald.plexusm2.net with esmtpa
 (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <
ghxtourh@fargo.io>)
 id 1Wb5ux-0000FO-BO for <recipient_address_omitted>; Fri,
 18 Apr 2014 05:21:11 -0500
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 06:21:53 -0400
From: PayPal <
fbotvvvm@fargo.io>
Subject:
eric.cissorsky@verizon.net - Important Message
X-Originating-IP: [173.193.32.171]
To: <recipient_address_omitted>
Message-id: <
20140418062153.13895CE2EF08EAF9@fargo.io>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse,
 please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - herald.plexusm2.net
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - verizon.net
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - fargo.io
X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: herald.plexusm2.net: authenticated_id:
 
kpontone@brighthorizonsrealty.com
Original-recipient: rfc822;<recipient_address_omitted>

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