On Saturday 14 January 2006 23:27, Gary W. Smith wrote: >I've been in this group for some years just not been very active. The >email was a phishing email. That was obvious. But the primary reason >for asking is that the catch all email account we have for this same >domain get's a lot of random phishing from ebay but never to this >particular one from a paypal spoof until I registered this email >address. > >I could be a random coincidence which is what I'm hopeful for.
I'd call it random when, to borrow a phrase, hell freezes over and all those flying pigs can use it for a runway. And I have yet to find one of those obfuscated in html code addresses that would resolve to a paypal or ebay domain. I'm not saying that it couldn't happen, but it hasn't yet that I've noted here. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 7:15 PM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: Re: [OT] Paypal scam emails >> >> From: "Gary W. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Hello, >> >> I received a typical paypal email today and wanted to ask this > >question > >> of the group before looking too deep into the matter. I normally >> get > >at > >> least one a day in my personal account. This is normal. Two weeks > >ago > >> I setup a new account for purchasing stuff through my company. This > >new > >> account is in the form of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not a name >> the end user would guess real easily. I have setup the email >> address through paypal but have yet to use it for the purchase of >> anything. >> >> <<jdow>> Gary, you need to wake up from your fevered dream about >> that name not being easily guessed. Were I trying to spam that and >> many variants of it would be names I would try. >> >> Today I received a 139 point paypal spam to this new account. Is > >there > >> any possibilities that these email lists are originating from within >> paypal? I have yet to approach paypal regarding this. Every time I >> >> <<jdow>> Read them carefully. See where they direct you to go. I'd >> be really surprised if any of them actually point back to PayPal, >> unless you elected to have PayPal send you mailings of offers and >> such > >nonsense. > >> {^_^} -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
