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

[Michael Elliott]

Of course, that doesn't preclude you getting a spam email on your  
"paypal only" email address. (though I doubt that a spanner would find  
your email unless it was a common word/name@ whatever email provider  
you use)

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Sent from my iPhone...so replies might be short, and sometimes  
"autocorrected" into gibberish.

On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:47 AM, Eugene <list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net>  
wrote:

> 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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