On Saturday 14 January 2006 11:21, Gary W. Smith wrote: >Hello, > >I received a typical paypal email today and wanted to ask this > question of the group before looking too deep into the matter. I > normally get at least one a day in my personal account. This is > normal. Two weeks ago I setup a new account for purchasing stuff > through my company. This new account is in the form of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not a name the end user would guess > real easily. I have setup the email address through paypal but have > yet to use it for the purchase of anything. > >Today I received a 139 point paypal spam to this new account. Is > there any possibilities that these email lists are originating from > within paypal? I have yet to approach paypal regarding this. Every > time I have called them in the past they just kick out that these > spammers are either screen scraping to get information or sending > things out to random addresses. Though it's possible, it's high > improbably in this case as we have an account that get's > undeliverables and that account has never received any spam until > after the signing up on paypal. > >Just looking for feedback to determine what course of actions should > be taken. > >Gary
I haven't gotten any of the usualy paypal phishing things today, but from the contents of some of them, I'd swear there is a mole on the paypal payroll. I registered for a gmail account, and had one of those phishing scams in that mailbox about an hour later. Methinks ebay/paypall need to do a bit of housekeeping, hopefully by filling the trash barrel & burning it. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
