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Lame spam of the day: Warning PayPal Account Placed on hold

October 30, 2012 by Robert 2 Comments

Fake PayPal notices are common as dirt, but this one stands out for its lameness.  It does have some design elements (small PayPal logo, blue font, borders) — it’s the text that’s lame — empty merge fields, typos, random capitalization.  There’s even a typo in the fake From address (PayPal with two L’s).  I don’t see any reports on what happens if you click the links, and have no plans to find out.

I got two copies with slight variations:

Senders:

PayPal Security [information@paypall.com]

PayPal Security Services [status@paypall.com]

Subjects:

***Urgent***  Information PayPal Account  Modified

***Urgent***  Warning PayPal Account  Placed on hold

Version 1:

Notification of latest Account Modifications

Respective ,

Due to new activity PayPal recently Withhold Your account and transformed it’s type to Unreliable.

You can view this Modifications proceeding this link and resolve this status. Once you are logged in, overview the Notifications section for the latest Account and Policy Updates. We also reccomend you to review the Policy Update to familiarize yourself with all of the changes that have been prepared.


Refards,

PayPal

(links lead to bordadosasterisco.info/accchanged.html)

Version 2:

Information about Account Modifications

Valued ,

Due to recent activity PayPal recently Stopped activity in Your account and transformed it’s type to Unreliable.

You can view this Update visiting this link and solve this status. Once you are logged in, look at the Notifications section for the latest Account and Policy Updates. We also reccomend you to review the Policy Update to acquaint yourself with all of the modifications that have been done.


Sincerely,

PayPal

(links lead to www.stavbastroje.sk/accchanged.html)

Robert

Comments

  1. Robert says

    October 30, 2012 at 9:37 am

    More versions:
    Senders:
    PayPal Customer control [services@paypall.com]
    PayPal Notifications [notify@paypall.com]
    PayPal Information Services [notifications@paypall.com]

    Subjects:
    ***Urgent*** Warning PayPal Account Information changed
    ***Urgent*** Info PayPal Account Suspended

    Now my accounts have been transformed to Untrustworthy and Unverified.

  2. Michael Julian says

    November 14, 2012 at 8:32 am

    Another Version:

    Sender:

    PayPal Warnings

    Subject:
    ***Urgent*** Information PayPal Account Type Changed

    Because of recent activity PayPal recently Withhold Your account and changed it’s type to Untrustworthy.

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