Today's Fun Spam Email

This is a variation on a common theme - PayPal scams:

June 2008

Attention PayPal Online Client:

You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your PayPal account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter.

If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your PayPal account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.

Please login into your PayPal account and complete verification process

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.


Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

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Copyright © 2008 PayPal.

Of course, the links (which I've removed) go to some address that has nothing to do with PayPal and where they've set up phishing websites designed to look like a regular PayPal site. And, the broken English that I highlighted is usually a dead giveaway that all is not well with this email.

Another giveaway is the sender's email address which was norelay@nafcu.org, an email address that you'd expect to find being used by a credit union. A credit union would not be sending out PayPal email, and this address is probably being used by the same people to run one of their credit union scams.

Be careful out there...