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Paypal renew - is this a scam?
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The site (pcaccessory.co.uk) appears to be hosted by hostzone.co.uk, so I have sent a complaint to their support email address (support@hostzone.co.uk) asking them to remove the offending page.0
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Yes it's definitely a scam, I have had a spate of them recently in my mailbox!Wins: Feb - Sam and Amanda DVD, Nanny Series, £50 Mother Day Goodies box0
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spammers getting their dotcom,s and dotcouk,s mixed up.
also using american language such as EXPIRATION.
uk never/very rarely uses such a phrase. EXPIRY is more likely.Get some gorm.0 -
Never respond to any Email asking for login details.0
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A google search of "pcaccessory.co.uk" finds other phishing scams trying to steal details for banks too.
There's another forged page here - this time for the abbey national:[SIZE=-1] http://pcaccessory.co.uk/~andrew/abbey.co.uk.htm[/SIZE]
In fact here's the folder listing for loads of scams.. you get redirected to this server after going to the pcaccessory.co.uk pages:
http://58.143.141.251/
Several other banks mentioned there.
I've reported the lot to hostzone mentioned above.0 -
Source: whois.apnic.net
58.143.141.251
Host reachable, 344 ms. average
58.140.0.0 - 58.143.255.255
C&M Communication Co.,Ltd.
Korea, Republic of
NOC ADMIN
Samseong-dong Gangnam-gu SEOUL
Jeil B/D 4,6,7F
phone: +82-70-7410-4742
[EMAIL="noc@cnm.co.kr"]noc@cnm.co.kr[/EMAIL]
NOC Jeon
Samseong-dong Gangnam-gu SEOUL
Jeil B/D 4,6,7F
phone: +82-70-7410-4742
[EMAIL="noc@cnm.co.kr"]noc@cnm.co.kr[/EMAIL]
CNM-KR
Updated: [EMAIL="hostmaster@nic.or.kr"]hostmaster@nic.or.kr[/EMAIL]
Source: whois.apnic.net0 -
Agreed, it's a scam, checked, and my communications use all lower case, i.e service@paypalMove along, nothing to see.0
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