Tuesday, 13 January 2009

PayPal Phishing Scam

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From: paypal.notify@62653.com
Date: 2009/1/10
Subject: Regarding Your Paypal Account
To: xxx







Security Center Advisory!


PayPal is constantly working to ensure security by screening accounts daily in our system. We recently reviewed your account, and we need you to verify information to help us provide you with secure service. Until we can collect this information, your access to sensitive account features will be limited or terminated. We would like to restore your access as soon as possible, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

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Why is my account access limited?

Your account access has been limited for the following reason(s):


March 12, 2008: We have reason to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. Because protecting the security of your account is our primary concern, we have placed limited access to sensitive PayPal account features. We understand that this may be an inconvenience but please understand that this temporary limitation is for your protection.

Click here to Remove Account Limitations





Completing all of the checklist items will automatically restore your account to normal access.

Thank you for using PayPal! The PayPal Team


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