[X4U] Re: Phishing

[Joe Sporleder]

On Mar 13, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Ed Gould wrote:

> On Mar 13, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Ralph wrote:
>
>> You're not listening, and you don't understand phishing.
>>
>> The email addresses DON'T come from the bank that's being attacked.  
>> They come from lists that are circulated in the criminal community.  
>> The phisher doesn't know that you have a PayPal account; he's just  
>> betting that a certain percentage of the people on the list he's  
>> using do have accounts.
>>
>> Think about it for a minute before you go off half-cocked again: I  
>> told you that I got phishing emails purporting to be from Wells  
>> Fargo and Bank of America, YET I DON'T HAVE AN ACCOUNT AT EITHER OF  
>> THOSE BANKS. THEREFORE THEY WEREN'T HACKED TO GET MY EMAIL.
>>
>> You're needlessly spreading false information and FUD about PayPal.
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>> Full disclosure: I do not have any connection with PayPal or eBay.
>>
>
> I am sorry I *DO* understand *PHISHING*, it is you that does not  
> understand.
> It is *FUNNY* that as soon as my account was deleted that the  
> PHISHING stopped, isn't it? Or are you going to now say the stars  
> have something to do with it?
> I suspect you have some connection with PAYPAL and are trying to  
> minimize the issue.
> However if *YOU* want to keep this up I will not respond in the  
> future.
> End of the so called conversation.
> Ed


Phishing is a cyber crime where someone tries to gain personal  
information, particularly passwords, user names, credit card  
information, SS#, etc, by PRETENDING to be a trusted source that they  
are not. If there was a phishing attack associated with a genuine  
PayPal account, perhaps that account's username and password was  
stolen somehow.

Joe