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An Email with the Subject "Your PayPal account will be shut down if you don't act fast" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:41:29 -0800 and has been classified as a Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam Email. The sender shows as "PayPal" <services@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 mxw@scamdex.com,
We use this medium to notify you that your PayPal account has generated some
errors on our MySQL Database and you are required to follow all instructions
given to you in order to correct this problem.
During our regular account verification procedure, we encountered a technical
problem and we could not verify your information which we have on file. Your
account data could not be recovered due to system errors resulting from Windows
update. As a result of this, your information which we have on file is
incomplete and your account functions are abnormal.
In respect to the above, you are urgently required to re-submit your information
via our servers so that we can fully verify your PayPal account; otherwise, your
access to PayPal services will be deactivated until you pass the verification
procedure.
We strongly require that you click here to verify your PayPal
account!
Note that failure to verify your account immediately will lead to permanent
deactivation of your PayPal account.
We are very sorry for the inconveniences this might have caused you and we
assure you that everything will return to normal as soon as you have done the
needful.
PayPal Technical Team
© 2012 PayPal. All Rights Reserved.
Dear mxw@scamdex.com,
We use this medium to notify you that your PayPal account has generated some
errors on our MySQL Database and you are required to follow all instructions
given to you in order to correct this problem.
During our regular account verification procedure, we encountered a technical
problem and we could not verify your information which we have on file. Your
account data could not be recovered due to system errors resulting from Windows
update. As a result of this, your information which we have on file is
incomplete and your account functions are abnormal.
In respect to the above, you are urgently required to re-submit your information
via our servers so that we can fully verify your PayPal account; otherwise, your
access to PayPal services will be deactivated until you pass the verification
procedure.
We strongly require that you click here to verify your PayPal
account!
Note that failure to verify your account immediately will lead to permanent
deactivation of your PayPal account.
We are very sorry for the inconveniences this might have caused you and we
assure you that everything will return to normal as soon as you have done the
needful.
PayPal Technical Team
© 2012 PayPal. All Rights Reserved.