Some of this has already been said, but based on the 6 off-list
emails I've gotten since posting my replies yesterday, it needs
re-saying...
At 12:56 PM -0700 09/28/2005, Tom Meade wrote:
as PayPal account holders seem to be spoof magnets,
99.9% of the PayPal and eBay spoofs are dictionary attacks or culls
from web sites and USENET postings. I'm leaving the .1% for the
occaisonal criminal armed with real ESP, etc. :)
I've had four attempts in the past several months
Only four?! :)
Some of you who know me off-list, know that I run several *small*
spam-traps and a honey net. This year alone, I've received 244 eBay
and Paypal spoofs and about 80 for other banks and brokerages.
They're distributed about equally between the email addresses; iow
the ones actualyl attached to my eBay and Paypal accts are NOT
receiving special attention. Note that that doesn't count any spoofs
that were caught outright by my basic spam filters. My total spam
count for this year is >30,000 so far.
with ruses improving each time, cleverly playing off PP's security
issues with great graphics, etc. - but thankfully, always that
subtle little slip - uncharacteristic grammar, idiom, etc., so
whoosh - it's off to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which of course triggers those
reassuring blandishments and preachy tutorials from PP (or are
they?).
I hate those canned replies. I wish they'd just turn that off altogether.
FWIW, last month eBay's "Town Hall" meeting's subject was PayPal. It
was mentioned there that the messages sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] are handled within a few hours, usually resulting in
a site takedown. The full transcript of the meeting is available on
eBay. An interesting read.
- Dan.
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