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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Your_IP_was_logged. (FBI Warning)

Here's a little hint for you; the FBI will NOT send you an email telling you that you are under investigation. The goal of this scam is to make you believe that you're under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, so you'll open the attachment (which undoubtedly contains a virus and/or spyware).

Don't believe this email!

Dear Sir/Madam,

We have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.

Important:
Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.

Yours faithfully,
Steven Allison

*** Federal Bureau of Investigation -FBI-
*** 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 3220
*** Washington, DC 20535
*** phone: (202) 283-1647

Friday, July 14, 2006

FPA NOTICE: Suspicious Activity-Section 9 (eBay scam)

Beware of this Fake eBay notice! This does not come from eBay, and the link in the email does not take you to eBay's website!

eBay request: Please confirm your identity.

Dear eBay member,

Your bank has contacted us regarding some suspicious activity, including unauthorized charges of your credit card via the eBay system. We have reasons to believe that you changed your registration information or that someone else has unauthorized access to your eBay account. Please use the link below to sign in to eBay, check and if necessary update your information we have on file. Once you have updated your account records your session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems.

Per the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our servi ces to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us.
Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account.




To provide us with your billing information, just click the link below and Please complete this form.
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We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you and we would like to thank you for your cooperation as we review this matter.





eBay will request personal data (password, credit card/bank numbers, and so on) in this email.
Thank you for using eBay!
http://www.ebay.com/





This eBay notice was sent to you based on your eBay account preferences. If you would like to review your notification preferences for other types of communications, click here. If you would like to receive this email in text only, click here.
As outlined in our User Agreement, eBay will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements. Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
Copyright © 2006 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.
eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Please Restore Your Account Access (PayPal)

The good news about this scam is, it's not very well designed...it doesn't even look like a real PayPal message. So, it's only likely to catch people new to the PayPal system. Beware of these kinds of emails. Never click links in emails; you know PayPal's web address...type it directly into your browser!

PayPal Security Measures!


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.


To securely confirm your PayPal information please go directly to https://www.paypal.com/ log in to your PayPal account and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible or click bellow:



To continue your verification procedure click here



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 footer of any page.

To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML, update your preferences here.