Paypal Personal Account Update Phishing Scam

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Date: 16 June 2006
Received from a service@intl.paypal.com
Subject: Urgent : Paypal Personal Account Update.

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It has come to our attention that your PayPal Billing Information records are out of date.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.

Click here to update your account

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

Log on to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the footer of any page.
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PayPal Email ID PP468

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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.

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This example is similar to the Update And Verify Your PayPal Account Phishing Scam. The main difference lays in the quality of the e-mail. The spelling and grammar are spot-on and the client is addressed in a more professional manner. This example poses a higher threat though, but you can still identify the request for personal (Billing) information, the false sense of urgency, the fake e-mail address not coming from paypal.com but intl.paypal.com and all the links pointing to sites other than paypal.com, all indicating that it is indeed a scam.

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