Craigslist, Ebay and other online buying/selling scams.
#10520 by Holly Brown Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:02 pm
I'm putting this here because PayPal is commonly used for payment on auction sites.
I received this recently. This is a phishing attempt. Do not respond to emails like this, and do not for any reason click on the link in the body of the email. It will take you to a phishing site, not the official PayPal site.

Delivered-To: xxx@xxx
Received: by 10.229.98.14 with SMTP id o14cs184950qcn;
Thu, 4 Jun 2009 01:34:29 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.90.68.12 with SMTP id q12mr1678267aga.33.1244104468074;
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:34:28 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from iqura2.iqura.org ([69.93.25.132])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 5si1792074agc.15.2009.06.04.01.34.27;
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:34:28 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: fail (google.com: domain of [email protected] does not designate 69.93.25.132 as permitted sender) client-ip=69.93.25.132;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=hardfail (google.com: domain of [email protected] does not designate 69.93.25.132 as permitted sender) [email protected]
Received: from User (unverified [72.243.179.57]) by iqura.net
(Rockliffe SMTPRA 6.1.20) with ESMTP id <[email protected]>;
Thu, 4 Jun 2009 03:21:16 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: "[email protected]"<[email protected]>
Subject: PayPal Email ID PP9216
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 04:34:25 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Dear Member, [I know this is not a real PayPal email, because I don’t have a PayPal account]

Your account has expired.
You must renew it immediately or your account will be closed.
If you intend to use this service in the future, you must take action at once!

To continue click here [That was highlighted to take you to a spoofed PayPal login page.], login to your PayPal account and follow the steps.

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a respons. [Not from this email address anyway – what will happen if you follow the instructions is that your PayPal account will be hijacked and used to pay for merchandise on eBay, Craigslist, or other sites.] For assistence, log in to your PayPal
account and click the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

PayPal Email ID PP9216

[email protected] if you want to ask me more questions.
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#10523 by Jillian Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:35 pm
Please note that ScamWarners is not the place to post other phishing emails as we do not deal with phishing. There are sites that deal with phishing.

Here is some more informaton and places to report them:

http://www.irs.gov/privacy/article/0,,id=179820,00.html

http://www.antiphishing.org/

http://www.phishtank.com/

If you receive a phishing email purporting to be from paypal you should forward the email to [email protected].

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