full-disclosure - Is this a paypal scam?

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From: nick at virus-l.demon.co.uk (Nick FitzGerald)
Subject: Is this a paypal scam?

Dave Sherohman <esper@...rohman.org> wrote:

> No, it gets sent to everyone whether they have a PayPal account or
> not.  Like spam, credit card scams don't even need anything close to
> a 1% response rate to be profitable, so they don't care how many
> non-PayPal-users get it.

_AND_ probably nearly the same proportion of non-Paypal users are na?ve 
enough to be taken in anyway, so even more reason to send it to "world 
plus dog"...

Regards,

Nick FitzGerald