I've been in this group for some years just not been very active. The email was a phishing email. That was obvious. But the primary reason for asking is that the catch all email account we have for this same domain get's a lot of random phishing from ebay but never to this particular one from a paypal spoof until I registered this email address.
I could be a random coincidence which is what I'm hopeful for. > -----Original Message----- > From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 7:15 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: [OT] Paypal scam emails > > From: "Gary W. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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. > > <<jdow>> Gary, you need to wake up from your fevered dream about that > name not being easily guessed. Were I trying to spam that and many > variants of it would be names I would try. > > 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 > > <<jdow>> Read them carefully. See where they direct you to go. I'd be > really surprised if any of them actually point back to PayPal, unless > you elected to have PayPal send you mailings of offers and such nonsense. > > {^_^}
