Hi George,
> 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.
Had to check/say it though, many times people are still fooled by
scam/social engineering emails.
Not that easy to check sometimes, one bank here in Aus was using a
totally different domain (contractor) for emailing out bank information.
It's only taken them a couple of years to figure out thats not a good
idea.
> 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.
It's a pain moving house isnt it..
Cheers
Ian Manners
If I Warp my computer today, can I add a Transporter Room next week?
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