On Saturday 14 January 2006 15:23, List Mail User wrote: [...] > 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]
You've got it, spot on Paul. I haven't dealt with ebay or paypal since ebay bought them. I don't trust them so I expect the account should have been autopurged by now. Some of the messages I've gotten have contained the exact username and password I used only for that ebay account. But the obfuscated link to login at could and has been from every country on the planet. So you know, and I know, they are a lieing sack of excrement when they claim no security has been breached. The last thing I bought, now over 2 years ago, I bought using my username and password, but from a windows 98 box 1500 miles from home as I was out on a job. The commercial server at a tv station I was working on was down and I needed that scsi card like day before yesterday since that was costing us 10 grand a day. I battled with ebay and their diptinit staff 2-3 times a day for a gawdamned week before they would agree to forward my contact info to the seller so we could complete the deal, which we did with a fedex overnight both ways. All because my winning bid didn't come from my *home* email address. AFAIWC my username and password (both were lengthy & obfuscated for exactly that reason) should have been unique enough to identify me from anyplace on the planet. Screw em, and the camel that rode in on them! I was sorting them to JunqueMail long before I started using SA. -- 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.
