The “Receipt for Your Payment to” eBay Paypal Phishing Spam   7/3/2008 - 839 views,

Well of course they didn’t actually make the eBay purchase - because it never happened. But the fear that you are about to lose several hundred dollars from your Paypal account ($347.85 in the example below, but we’ve seen them as high as $1200 or more) causes people to not think clearly - and when the email really looks like a legitimate email from Paypal, they are likely as not to click the links in the email so they can get the problem resolved quickly, before “their money” is wrongly sent away.

Of course ironically, the very act of clicking the link and logging in to “Paypal” ensures that all of the money will be drained from their Paypal account. Because what they are really logging in to is a clone site which looks like Paypal, but is being run by the phishers, who capture the victim’s Paypal username and password, and then log in and drain the Paypal account of all of its funds - after also grabbing all of the user’s banking information.

Here’s an example of the Paypal eBay phish that was caught in our net today.

This is the view not that the end user sees with an html-enabled email reader, but the actual, underlying text - see if you can spot the nasty bits:

From: service@PayPal.Inc.com
Subject: Receipt for Your Payment to achaade13@yahoo.com
Dear PayPal Member,

This email confirms that you have sent an eBay payment of $347.85 USD to
achaade13@yahoo.com for an eBay item.

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Payment Details
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Amount: $347.85 USD

Transaction ID: 2LC956793J776333Y

Subject: Digimax 130

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Item Information
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eBay User ID: scratchandgnaw2

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Edward Harrell’s UNCONFIRMED Address
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Edward Harrell
211 David St.
Springtown, TX 76082
United States

Important Note: Edward Harrell has provided an Unconfirmed Address. If
you are planning on shipping items to Edward Harrell, please check the
Transaction Details page of this payment to find out whether you will
be covered by the PayPal Seller Protection Policy.

Note:

If you haven’t authorized this charge ,click the link below to dispute
transaction
and get full refund

Dispute Transaction:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_ssr&
return=http%3A%2F%2Fpaypal-cgi-bin.s6.pl/?
cgi-bin.webscrcmd=_login-run.webscrcmd=_account-run.DisputeTransactionID.2LC956793J776333Y

*SSL connection:
PayPal automatically encrypts your confidential information
in transit from your computer to ours using the Secure
Sockets Layer protocol (SSL) with an encryption key length
of 128-bits (the highest level commercially available)

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This payment was sent using your bank account.

By using your bank account to send money, you just:

- Paid easily and securely

- Sent money faster than writing and mailing paper checks
- Paid instantly — your purchase won’t show up on bills at the end of
the month.

Thanks for using your bank account!

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Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
PayPal Email ID PP118

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