The initial phishing letter arrived at that box through a Verizon faux pas. It was NOT sent directly to that email address. I made the mistake of forwarding the phishing letter to spoof at paypal from that account. I can only assume that someone at paypal's spoof department is selling addresses ... or ... some hacker has found a way of waylaying paypal's spoof email in order to harvest addresses. Mike
Loren Busch wrote: > RE: Reporting spam to PayPal > I don't understand your logic. First you say that your email address had > been harvested by a spamer, then you report it to PayPal, then you blame > them for something that happened before you emailed PayPal? > |
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