On Mar 13, 2009, at 2:00 AM, Ed Gould wrote: > Sorry I disagree. the phishers had to of broken into PAYPAL and got > email address I don't have a Paypal account and yet I get these messages all the time. I also get messages from banks that I don't have accounts in. These phishers harvested my email address from somewhere and hope that I have an account in one of those banks and inadvertently hand over my information to them when I reply to a phishing email.