Forward it to spoof at paypal.com. If it doesn't refer to you by name, then it's definately not PayPal. And obviously, never access PayPal via any links in any e-mails.
It's just about the oldest trick in the book. Google 'phishing'. It's evil but with the volume of spam these asshats send out, even a 0.001% return rate is worth it.
Torben
True, and it is usually the elderly and less computer literate that fall prey. My father has dementia and my sister has to constantly monitor his email. Sounds wrong, but my dad needs watching over these days...
It's not wrong, it's sad. I don't mean in a pathetic, pitying way--more that it's sad that there are actually people who will actively prey on people in your dad's state, or even just on those who aren't facing problems like dementia, but are simply naive.
It used to make me angry. Now I think I'm mostly just numb. That's sad too.
Torben
SO how can we all be aware of it but the powers the be and claim to have control over these type of situations just be sitting there and apparently not doing much about it?
If this is that obvious and its still going on what are they spending their policing efforts and time on then?
Phishers are only a problem for people who don't know much about computers who just give away their bank account details.
You make it sound like it would be easy to stop spam mailers.
I do not think the info on that site is very useful. It makes no effort to track the spam to its source. Any machine that is compromised/hijacked is treated as a source of spam.
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