>...
>Hello,=20
>
>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. =20
>
>Gary
>...
I have also recently contacted PayPal about spam to a non-obvious
tagged account that has never before received anything but valid email.
After three days came back the standard - "You must be mistaken,
we never make errors". It looks very much like their database in whole
or part was stolen or sold. I changed all eBay/PayPal email accounts and
passwords immediately - spam keeps coming in to the now refused at the MTA
level accounts.
Simply they are full of themselves: All there responses had to
do with how to tighten MS Windows security, but I only use dedicated
sessions on a 'BSD box - no viruses, no screen scraping - In fact none
of their suggestions were close to relevant, despite all the evidence having
been sent to them along with the circumstances; Low-brow idiots only setup
and prepared to deal with them same.
Paul Shupak
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
