[Coco] Re: [OT] Phishing

[ostro011]

John, thanks for supplying details of your past PayPal problems.  Much
meatier than just passing on rumors and fears to this group.

-- Steve --


On 30 Dec 2003, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> I report the ebay scams to what ever address spamcop.net shows as the 
> current contact.  It seems to change a lot.
> 
> I have not found any working e-mail address for pay-pal to report scams 
> to.  It appears that they only have a web form.
> 
> 
> I will not use pay-pal primarily because they want direct access to a 
> bank account, or strongly imply that giving them a credit card waives my 
> right to dispute fraudulant charges on it.  Neither which I will allow.
> 
> After finding that out, I never completed the registration, but they 
> already had my e-mail address, which after a year they started spamming 
> with affiliate offers, requiring me to update a profile to stop it.
> 
> Then they started sending me regular e-mails in HTML that were not 
> relevant to me, so I tried to get my account totally removed.
> 
> It took at least 3 attempts at jumping through hoops with web forms to 
> get me out of the pay-pal system over a 3 month time.
> 
> All and all, it has convinced me not to ever deal with pay-pal again.
> 
> 
> -John
> wb8tyw at qsl.net
> Personal Opinion Only
> 
> 
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