New set of PayPal emails

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PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of customers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.

We are contacting you to remind you that on 29 July 2006 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.

To secure your account and quickly restore full access, we may require some additional information from you for the following reason:

We have been notified that a card associated with your account has been reported as lost or stolen, or that there were additional problems with your card.


This process is mandatory, and if not completed within the nearest time your account or credit card may be subject for temporary suspension.

To securely confirm your PayPal information please click on the link bellow:

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We encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible. Allowing your account access to remain limited for an extended period of time may result in further limitations on the use of your account and possible account closure.

For more information about how to protect your account please visit PayPal Security Center. We apologize for any incovenience this may cause, and we apriciate your assistance in helping us to maintain the integrity of the entire PayPal system.



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The PayPal Team

Im just wondering how do they mask the address?? do they do something like this

http://www.namepros.com

Ive never clicked on it so I just wanted to know.

+ for some reason I got 4 emails the same as above they must be doing their spamming again.

 

[Archangel]

I think the standard php mail() function will allow you to claim what email address you are using. So if you write something in the script that says your email address is [email protected] then the email sent will appear to be from [email protected]. That is, of course, if I'm not mistaken. I ony have limited knowledge of PHP.

 

[mis_chiff]

whenever I get one of these, I check the properties on the email and get
the address that's under message source...then I go and put that address in
a few places that do mailings - mass mailings - not sure if it works, but it gives me satisfaction that I did something back...I have never clicked on any links or replied to any of the emails from my own computer, I find this more satisfying... :hehe:

 

[Peter]

Im just wondering how do they mask the address?? do they do something like this

http://www.namepros.com

Ive never clicked on it so I just wanted to know.

+ for some reason I got 4 emails the same as above they must be doing their spamming again.

If you put your mouse over the link and look to the bottom right hand corner of your mail client it ussually shows you the actual address they are sending you too. What you have demonstrated above is exactly how they do it. BUT to make the real address it is sending you too look a bit more authentic what they are doing at the moment is having a subdomain the same name as the site you think you are getting sent too such as http://www.namepros.com.arcaderush.net this probably fools the casual user or someone who only quickly glances at the address as they are comforted by the fact the address contains the real address for the site (although they do not notice it is a subdomain)

 

[WGS_Thunder]

"and we apriciate your assistance in helping us to maintain the integrity of the entire PayPal system."
apriciate? These scammers don't have spellcheck? too funny