[24hoursupport] paypal final note
- From: 0e60wq102@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: 24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 11 Jan 2005 15:26:16 -0000
I still can't see what's false about the paypal message, except that there was
no added email address, and when I clicked on the link, it did not work.
My ebay email goes to a sneak email address dedicated exclusively to ebay
traffic, which rolls over to my web-based email server account. Sneak email
identifies that the bogus paypal email used my ebay address.
My web-based email server had put the bogus paypal notice in the spam folder,
and this email was about five days old by the time I scanned my spam folder for
anything important before deletion.
I think the fact that the bogus paypal email was five days old, made the sender
jittery or nervous and they cancelled the reply link by the time I got to it,
lest anyone bust them for their criminal enterprise.
So it was my web-based email spam folder that stopped them. Otherwise, one
click, and I could have been wiped out, with only my bank's 90-day
reimbursement of unauthorized charges policy to undo any damage. Evidently,
someone got my ebay email address from a past transaction with me, or by some
other ebay or Internet data-mining process, although their actual identity
remains unknown.
I was so convinced that no one could learn that email address who would be
capable of trying a stunt like that. I let my guard down and believed that it
was a real paypal contact.
Being 'one click' away from disaster like that is not my cup of tea, so I
cancelled my paypal account. It adds two weeks to the time it takes for
anything I buy on ebay to get to me, but so what.
Add my story to the litany of other paypal nightmares, this one from which I
fortunately woke up in time to look back on it all as nothing more than a bad
dream.
Thanks to everyone for your warnings. You spotted it so fast. This is posted
that others in the 24hoursupport egroup may also profit from my experience.
Oe6
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