Thursday, May 04, 2006

My PayPal info needs to be confirmed - I don't even use PayPal

From: Billing@PayPal.com
Subject: Credit/Debit card update
Date: May 4, 2006 3:51:07 PM GMT+01:00
To: [my email address]
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Dear Paypal valued member,

Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the paypal
account we have issued this warning message.

It has come to our attention that your account information needs
to be updated due to inactive members, frauds and spoof reports.
If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and renew
your records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension
This notification expires on 48.

Once you have updated your account records your paypal account
service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.

Please follow the link below and login to your account
and renew your account information
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

Sincerely,
Paypal customer department!

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Very entertaining that that link https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run links to http://66.160.154.156/catalog/paypal/ - instead http://66.160.154.156/ has a redirect to http://66.160.154.156/catalog/ or as its name, http://www.peek-a-book-store.com/.

That gives

Domain Name: PEEK-A-BOOK-STORE.COM
Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.register.com
Referral URL: http://www.register.com
Name Server: NS1.HE.NET
Name Server: NS2.HE.NET
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 22-aug-2005
Creation Date: 20-aug-2005
Expiration Date: 20-aug-2008


IP address 66.160.154.156 -
OrgName: Hurricane Electric
OrgID: HURC
Address: 760 Mission Court
City: Fremont
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94539
Country: US

NetRange: 66.160.128.0 - 66.160.207.255
CIDR: 66.160.128.0/18, 66.160.192.0/20
NetName: HURRICANE-7
NetHandle: NET-66-160-128-0-1
Parent: NET-66-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.HE.NET
NameServer: NS2.HE.NET
NameServer: NS3.HE.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 2003-10-09
Updated: 2005-09-27

RTechHandle: ZH17-ARIN
RTechName: Hurricane Electric
RTechPhone: +1-510-580-4100
RTechEmail: hostmaster@he.net

OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE1036-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Abuse Department
OrgAbusePhone: +1-510-580-4100
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@he.net

OrgTechHandle: ZH17-ARIN
OrgTechName: Hurricane Electric
OrgTechPhone: +1-510-580-4100
OrgTechEmail: hostmaster@he.net

And, of course I am going to update my PayPal info to this obnoxious website. After all, I don't even have a PayPal account.

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