[X4U] Not an OS X issue but ....

[Eugene]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 02:00:25PM CDT, Wayne Clodfelter <wayneclodfelter at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> Ed Gould wrote:
>>
>> A few years ago I signed up for PAYPAL and it reasonably worked for  
>> about a year. Then apparently PAYPAL was hacked and I started getting  
>> all sorts of false requests to give out PAYPAL information.
>
> PayPal wasn't hacked. The Spammers just started sending out phishing  
> emails to everybody, figuring a good number of them had Paypal accounts  
> and would fall for the fraudulent messages.
> I got the same messages, and still do. I just forward them to Paypal to  
> deal with them. No big deal.

I have a special email address for only PayPal activities.  If I get
anything PayPal on my primary email address, I know it's fake.


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Eugene
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