\nSubject: Account Review
From: service <update@support.com><\/p>\n
As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the system.
We recently contacted you after noticing an issue on your account.
We requested information from you for the following reason:
We have observed activity in this account that is unusual or potentially high risk.<\/p>\n
Case ID Number: PP-571-827-944<\/p>\n
Please download the form attached to this email and open it in a web browser.
Once opened, you will be provided with steps to restore your account access.
We appreciate your understanding as we work to ensure account safety.
Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Sure, I’m just going to download and execute an innocuously-named HTML file based on a poorly formatted generic phishing email. Yeesh.<\/p>\n
Hopefully, nobody else I know and love would do so … (If there are any friends or family reading this who don’t know why that would be a bad idea or what makes me contemptibly suspicious of this, please ask me.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I mean … Subject: Account Review From: service <update@support.com> As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the system. We recently contacted you after noticing an issue on your account. 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