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

[Ralph]

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.


Ed Gould wrote:

> 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.
>