Another scam. Beware of paypal messages

[Lynn]

Just in case you don't catch it, you may receive an email purportedly from paypal asking you to "update" your account. I received this one:


Dear Customer,

YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED !!!

After the energy breakdown from 22/09/2006 it appears that some of our
hardware is not working properly. The data of five thousands customers
stored on computer backup tapes was lost.
Can we regain what was once lost? - YES
PayPal temporarily suspended your account.
Some restrictions applied until you update your account.

Once you have completed these steps, we will send you an email notifying
that your account is available again. After that you can upgrade or downgrade
your account at any time.
The information provided will be treated in confidence and stored in our secure database.
If you fail to provide information about your account you'll discover that your account
has been automatically deleted from PayPal database.

Please click on the link below to start the update process:


Please click here and complete the next Step to update your account.



Go To My Account


PayPal case ID PP-121-601-924

DON'T RESPOND!!!!!

It is a scam. I have my email set up to reveal the IP address of all incoming messages. This one originated from England (that is also why it refers to the date of 9-22-06 as 22-09-2006 - only in the U.S. do we use mm/dd/yyyy instead of dd/mm/yyyy). Anyway, here is the info I got on the IP address:

inetnum: 80.6.32.0 - 80.6.47.255
netname: NTL
descr: NTL Infrastructure - Luton
country: GB
admin-c: NNMC1-RIPE
tech-c: NNMC1-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: AS5089-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

role: NTLI Network Management Centre
address: NTL Internet
address: Crawley Court
address: Winchester
address: Hampshire
address: SO21 2QA
remarks: -------------------------------------------------------
remarks: For abuse notifications please -
remarks: file an online case @ http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport
remarks: +44 1633 710142 (Voicemail Only)
remarks: -------------------------------------------------------
remarks: For peering issues/requests please -
remarks: email : [email protected]
remarks: -------------------------------------------------------
admin-c: MH22007-RIPE
admin-c: NR731-RIPE
admin-c: CW1083-RIPE
tech-c: MH22007-RIPE
tech-c: CW1083-RIPE
admin-c: NR731-RIPE
nic-hdl: NNMC1-RIPE
mnt-by: AS5089-MNT
e-mail: [email protected]
source: RIPE # Filtered


route: 80.6.0.0/16
descr: NTL-UK-IP-BLOCK
origin: AS5089
mnt-by: AS5089-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

Of course, if you "update" your account, the scammers will have all they need to start purchasing online with your money.

Lynn