Please give us your personal information so we may rob you:
—–Original Message—–
From: PayPal Billing [mailto:billing@customerdata.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:13 PM
Subject: Account Verification Form
Dear PayPal customer,During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification
procedure we have detected a slight error in your billing information.
This might be due to the following reasons:
1.A recent change in your personal information (ie. change of
address, email address)
2.An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment
due to an internal error within our systems.Please verify your information. To do this we have attached a form to this
email. Please download the form and follow the instructions on your screen.
NOTE: The form needs to be opened in a modern browser which has javascript
enabled (ex: Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3, Safari 3, Opera 9)We are requesting this information to verify and protect your identity. This
is in order to prevent the illegal activity of PayPal accounts.Please do not reply to this email.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.Sincerely, PayPal
security team.PayPal Email ID PP836
Remember, this is the Internet. Just because you’re not the type of person who would sell your grandmother to Russian gangsters for a dollar doesn’t mean there aren’t a thousand and one other people out here who would. (Sell your grandmother to Russian gangsters that is, and probably their own as well.)
This email was good. No spelling or obvious grammar mistakes. The only warning signs were (a) the sending email address (billing@customerdata.com) and (b) the fact that they attached an html form for the user to fill out. The html document was encrypted and wrapped in a javascript tag. NOT GOOD!!