Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] WARNING: possible eBay scam
From: "Jeffery L. Smith" <jsmith45@bellsouth.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 01:06:54 -0600

When this happened about 8 months ago, someone was able to trace the emails 
to a female in the Midwest. Fortunately for me, I hate spam so much I never 
even open something like that. Spamkiller removes most of it (along with 
all emails from Howard Cummer). :-)

JLS


At 10:04 PM 11/15/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>There is an email going round purporting to be from 'paypal-ebay.com' whose
>intention appears to be to obtain details of your paypal account. It is
>quite well done and modelled on the paypal (lack of) service team emails.
>
>However www.paypal-ebay.com is not as far as I am aware a valid eBay site
>and appears to have been shut down. If you get one of these emails I advise
>you to log in ONLY to eBay.com or Paypal.com if you want to check your
>account.
>
>On a side note, can ANYONE explain to me why Paypal is not regulated as a
>bank?
>
>--
>Johnny Deadman
>
>http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
>
>
>
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