posted on February 13, 2002 07:07:44 AM new
Has anyone else received an email supposedly from a college student asking you to go to paypal and send $5 to the person's whose name is at the top of the list??? A twist on the ole' chain letter.
I will say one thing for the "author" it seems to be a great advertisement for PP. They have a link to www.paypal.com at least 3 places in the email. They ask if you already have an account and if you don't they tell you how easy it is to sign up, ect.
Boy, what will they think of next?????
I'm not sure how I ended up on the addressee list, but browsing through all the other addressees, I did see the name of a seller I recently brought from. Of course, they were receiving the SPAM also.
posted on February 13, 2002 08:59:09 AM new
Send a copy of the email with the full headers to [email protected] and PayPal will shut down the accounts of those involved.
posted on February 13, 2002 12:49:44 PM new
PayPal is a conduit for many fraudulent acts. It's because they make it too easy for scam artists to get away with it.
posted on February 13, 2002 03:20:53 PM new
I did forward the email to Damon and he responded really quick.
I also just received another email from the "chain letter" person with an apology!
The sender said she was very sorry she sent an "illegal email" and she felt so stupid and she would never do it again and please forgive her, but when she got it (from someone she did not know either) it sounded like a really good idea and it only cost her $5!
I don't know if her apology was sent because PayPal contacted her or perhaps one of the receipients of her SPAM, to inform her this was a big NO NO.
posted on February 14, 2002 12:24:52 PM new
Well considering my bank has never screwed me and PayPal has, PayPal is operating outside of regulation and my bank is not. Banks and money order companies must answer to the government, PayPal does not.
