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  • I Got A Fake PayPal Email

    From Ed Vance@1:2320/105.1 to All on Mon Oct 19 22:30:00 2015
    Howdy!,

    I got a Email today about My PayPal Account.
    I don't have a Account with PayPal, and since the Address the message
    came from didn't end with "paypal.com" I Forwarded the FAKE message to:

    spoof@paypal.com

    so their Security Department could investigate it.

    I thought I ought to share that Email Address with the people who read
    this echo, because someone might want to help PayPal Security catch
    people who are impersonating them.

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  • From ED KOON@1:123/140 to ED VANCE on Sat Oct 24 18:35:54 2015
    On Oct 19, 2015 10:34pm, ED VANCE wrote to ALL:

    I got a Email today about My PayPal Account.
    I don't have a Account with PayPal, and since the Address the message
    came from didn't end with "paypal.com" I Forwarded the FAKE message to:

    spoof@paypal.com
    so their Security Department could investigate it.

    I thought I ought to share that Email Address with the people who read
    this echo, because someone might want to help PayPal Security catch
    people who are impersonating them.

    eBay and PayPal are huge targets. Most of those spoofs are being sent by infected pc's and smartphones. There really is nothing to investigate as most of these spammers and scammers are overseas.

    The number of scams targeting car buyers is frightning. They used to use eBay in their phishing scams but now are concentrating on Amazon to hook naive suckers. https://blog.ebaymotorssucks.com/9680/amazon-payments-car-scam-2014/

    Oh well.. as we say in the car business.. There's an ASS for every seat.. LOL!

    Regards,

    Ed "DOC" Koon - Sysop

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