Received this email, bit of a basic fail from the scammer, after putting lots of craft into a nice form to fill in all your details on >>
"Your SecureCode program identified some unusual activity in your account!?
01:16
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From: PayPal Center Team (secure@securitypaypal.com)
Sent: 18 March 2011 01:16:55
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We are contacting you to remind you that on 29/03/2011 our PayPal Security Team identified some unusual activity in your account.
In accordance with 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 for the following reason:
We have been notified that a card associated with your account has been reported as lost or stolen, or that there were additional problems with your card.
This process is mandatory, and if not completed within the nearest time your account or credit card may be subject for temporary suspension.
To securely confirm your account information please download the attachement.
We encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible.
Allowing your account access to remain blocked for an extended period of time may result in further limitations on the use of your account and possible account closure.
For more information about how to protect your account please visit Security Center.
We apologize for any incovenience this may cause, and we apriciate your assistance in helping us to maintain the integrity of the entire system.
Thank you for using PayPal!"
Well, right up to the bit where it says 'download this' I think I would've gone for it.
It does make you wonder - the spam and scam-mails that you see usually have an obvious FAIL somewhere in them. I mean, you've got this far in getting the email addresses, setting up the bot, why do you not bother doing a spellcheck, for example?!
We are contacting you to remind you that on 29/03/2011 our PayPal Security Team identified some unusual activity in your account.
29/03/2011? It's only 18th March here!
It's only 18th March here!
you're [b]*so*[/b] yesterday darling 🙁
Don't you 'darling' me, sfb, you're so not my type!
you're so not my type!
you're just playing hard to get 🙂