[X4U] re recent thread on paypal phishing emails

[Ed Gould]

On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:

> I just received an email purporting to be from paypal, saying my  
> account had been suspended, or was about to be suspended.
>
> Not the first suspicious email I have gotten for Paypal. I also get  
> them for banks, amazon.com, and others.
>
> I don't worry about them. I just forward them to the various spoof/ 
> phishing addresses for the spoofed entities so they can deal with  
> the sender of the fraudulent emails.
>
> Here is the reply I got from Paypal (note the address to send  
> suspicious emails to):
>
>

I got the same standard reply back at least 15 times. I stopped  
reporting these after awhile as well.

At first I actually thought it might have done some good, apparently  
not.

Ed