Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This one is very well done and got past both Spamkiller and Mac OS X spam protection. It looks very like a real Paypal email and was even filed accordingly by my filters. On 11/16/02 2:06 AM, "Jeffery L. Smith" <jsmith45@bellsouth.net> wrote: > When this happened about 8 months ago, someone was able to trace the emails > to a female in the Midwest. Fortunately for me, I hate spam so much I never > even open something like that. Spamkiller removes most of it (along with > all emails from Howard Cummer). :-) > > JLS > > > At 10:04 PM 11/15/2002 -0500, you wrote: >> There is an email going round purporting to be from 'paypal-ebay.com' whose >> intention appears to be to obtain details of your paypal account. It is >> quite well done and modelled on the paypal (lack of) service team emails. >> >> However www.paypal-ebay.com is not as far as I am aware a valid eBay site >> and appears to have been shut down. If you get one of these emails I advise >> you to log in ONLY to eBay.com or Paypal.com if you want to check your >> account. >> >> On a side note, can ANYONE explain to me why Paypal is not regulated as a >> bank? >> >> -- >> Johnny Deadman >> >> http://www.pinkheadedbug.com >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html