Hi Ian,
It definitely was a real (attempted) theft. Nothing received was a spoof
email, they were all the real PP notifications of money transfer. And the
money did make it out of my bank account (at least electronically if not
physically!) before being rectified BY THE BANK - NOT PayPal 24 hours later.
BTW- I have to tell the story of the security breach by the New York
Yankees that I referred to also.
I have a small season ticket package this year. The Yankees recently
emailed me an apology explaining that they accidentally included an attachment
to an email to several hundred season ticket holders. That attachment
included the name, address, and phone numbers of many season ticket holders,
as
well as what games we have tickets for. They were also patting themselves on
the back announcing there was no need for worry since no financial info
was included, that info being kept separately by them.
So I emailed them back asking: "What do you mean, no need to worry?? Now
several hundred strangers know my name, address phone # and what nights I'm
going to be out of the house and at a game!- DUH!" Not surprisingly, I
have not received a reply to that one.
I'll just have to place my faith in my very grumpy 110 lb German Shepherd
who hates strangers coming 'round even more than I do, and my wife's
ability to direct the business ends of the Smith and Wesson .357, 9MM and .380
that are nearby. HMmmm... I really shoulda replaced that shotgun I
sold.....time to go shopping....
Best,
George S.
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All the ones I get here are scams, click on the link and you are at
a fake paypal website which is eager to take your login details :o)
Easy enough to tell by checking the email headers. All the ones I
received on my server here are filtered to my abuse account for
submitting to various spam and reporting services.
Never login in to an account for anything from a email link
(unless you use a text client like I do, and/or know what you
are doing).
Your paypal account will also list these transfers if they are real.
Cheers
Ian Manners
FidoNet??? What a STUPID name for a dog!!!
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