[X4U] Re: X4U Digest, Vol 55, Issue 7

[Michael Elliott]

I wonder if you hit Reply to the possible phishing email or did you go  
through the paypal website by typing Www.paypal.com into your browser?  
Cause if the forher, a spanner may have just replied to you saying ,  
Yes, this is really from Paypal!

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"autocorrected" into gibberish.

On Mar 13, 2009, at 1:00 AM, Ed Gould <edgould1948 at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> On Mar 12, 2009, at 8:18 PM, Ralph wrote:
>
>> Just to state it simply:
>>
>> Paypal is NOT responsible IN ANY WAY for phishing attacks that  
>> mimic their legitimate company emails.
>>
>> Phishing is criminal activity. Paypal is as much a victim of the  
>> crime as are its registered users who fall for the phishing.
>>
>> I have received phishing emails claiming to be from Bank of  
>> America. I have received others claiming to be from Wells Fargo.
>>
>> Are these banks responsible for the phishing emails? NO. They are  
>> the work of criminals, NOT the banks.
>>
>> Is the existence of phishing evidence that these banks don't take  
>> security seriously? NO. It says nothing whatsoever about their  
>> security policies.
>>
>> Did I get these emails because I have an account at one of the  
>> banks? NO. I don't have accounts at either BofA or Wells.
>>
>> To blame PayPal for the phishing you encountered is just plain  
>> wrong. PayPal had absolutely nothing to do with it.
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>>
>
> Sorry I disagree. the phishers had to of broken into PAYPAL and got  
> email address somehow(other friend were getting the same emails as I  
> had been). I know this happened a year or two ago. I went to the  
> PAYPAL site to see if I could delete my account. I gave up. I  
> submitted a question to PAYPAL on how to delete my account. They  
> never answered back. Other companies I have dealt with delete  
> accounts with out any issue that is a major no no at paypal. If  
> there is a way it is so buried that after 2 hours I gave up trying.  
> Other business delete accounts all the time PAYPAL actually resists  
> doing this. If on the other hand there would be a simple way to  
> delete your account then we would not be having this discussion. At  
> the time, I sent a communication to PAYPAL asking about this  
> "change" and I got back a response  that it was a valid request.  
> That was thew last straw. Paypal can got pound pavement. I will  
> never have anything to do with them ever again especially after  
> asking for my account to be deleted and they would not.
>
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