full-disclosure - Posible PayPall Scam? FW: Your PayPal ac

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From: niels=netsys at bakker.net (Niels Bakker)
Subject: Posible PayPall Scam?   FW: Your PayPal ac

* nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk (Nick FitzGerald) [Thu 06 Mar 2003, 02:57 CET]:
> What can PayPal (or eBay or Amazon or AOL or any of the other popular 
> targets of such scams) do about this?
> 
> Precious little.  They can complain to the service providers involved 
> in the spamming (if they are sent the full Email headers -- unlikely 
> from a substantial proportion of those naive enough to have to ask 
> what they should do about such things) and they can complain to the 
> service providers of the website hosting the bogus "login" form.

For starters, they could supply an e-mail address on their web site
where recipients of such scam mails can submit them, without being
forced to register as a customer.

	-- Niels.

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