Yet another paypal scam

[Freakin]

Dear me@mydomain.com

In response for your PayPal account security we have to report that your
password may be is compromised. Your account is marked for too many
successful logins last week (January, 17-24, 2005). It is more interesting
that the hostnames are from different countries:


United States (c-67-160-224-80.client.comcast.net)
Canada (HSE-Toronto-ppp304429.sympatico.ca)
Russia (32.122-140-213.telenet.ru)
Sweden (c213-100-93-27.swipnet.se)


Your account is limited for security reasons.



Follow the link to make sure you are on a secure PayPal page and login with currently password.
Please reauthorize your account information on or before January 31, 2005.


https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=login-run

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team




Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be
answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the
"Help" link in the header of any page.



PayPal Email ID PP23897


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And here's where the link actually sends you...

<A HREF="http://neo-ump.com/SecureSSL-PayPal/main.html?JbQqzzFgGCFTgAgAAeJbQqzzFgGCFTgAgAAeHlz9 FnXeMWZllWXADAAMuMCwCFBQlz9FnXeMWZllWXS3AlBX+VShqA hQRfhgTDrferHCURst/pAisNRFgmQ=https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login_error&login_access=109740185 5/&AAJbaQqzeHAAeMWZlHhlWXS2AlBX+VShqAhQRfhgTDrfe rHCURst/pAisNRFgD">https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=login-run</A>

I think the page may have even been shut down already, but just in case its still up AND you guys are stupider than I think....

Freakin

[AncientPC]

Forward it to spoof@paypal.com

[CORed]

I have gotten similar emails and I don't have a paypal account. I have also gotten them allegedly from credit card companies that I don't have credit cards with. Usually the web sites that they link to get taken down pretty quickly. If you know some javascript and html, it's fun to flood them with responses. If you use IE, you can put a target attribute in the form tag, so that the response goes to another window, then put a javascript loop that keeps submitting the form. I did this once, filled the form in with obscenities and threats, giving no real information except my email address. I have gotten only one or two phishing emails since, which leads me to believe that it's a pretty small group of people that are doing this.