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PayPal scam e-mail

October 6th, 2008 — CyberCat

I got an e-mail from someone claiming to be PayPal telling me that there were some suspicious charges connected to the credit card that was associated with my PayPal account.  I sent it to PayPal’s spoof department.

First off, what makes them think I would really believe that PayPal is monitoring the activity of the credit card someone else issued to me?  Now, I might believe if they were seeing suspicious activity with the card that I have through PayPal, but I am not about to believe that PayPal keeps tabs on the purchases made outside of PayPal on cards issued by other people.  That would be like my family doctor calling me up because something odd showed up on the x-rays taken of my dog by my veterinarian.  The two have no reason to be keeping track of what one another are doing.


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