Date Reported 20th January 2005
Apparent Sender PayPal
Return Address service@paypal.com
Subject PayPal Account Security Measures
Format HTML
Method Spoof email links to a spoof webpage where victim is prompted to enter their details believing the site is genuine. Details are then forwarded to a local script and captured.
Bogus Web Content? Yes
URL of web content http://www.netzmaler.de/logout.php
RISK LEVEL MEDIUM
WARNINGS 1. Email claims to be from PayPal asking you to confirm your account data by clicking on the link. You will be taken to a spoof login page where your details will be captured by the phishers.
2. PayPal never send users emails requesting details in this way.
3. URL obviously not PayPal!
4. Website traced to Germany.
5. Email text and URL disguised by embedding into an image in the email body - a technique used to get past spam filters.
" We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your PayPal account from a different IP address."
If you have received this email, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content or the same but with the fake page(s) hosted by a different provider. Also, once you have received one of these hoaxes, it is also common place to receive at least another one and usually a day or two after the first, although not necessarily from the same apparent sender.
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