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Security Strategy

By Munir Kotadia

Published: Tuesday 18 November 2003


Name

Gareth Davies


Location

Aberdeen


Occupation

Web Designer


Comment

PayPal don't care! I've been receiving these or similar e-mails for weeks, and was perturbed to note that Paypal have given no information on this scam either on their homepage, or anywhere else on their websites. I e-mailed them about this over a week ago and got an apparent stock reponse of "We appreciate you bringing this incident of spam to our attention. We will investigate this fully and suspend the account of any PayPal user who has violated our Anti-Spam policy". As I responded, I doubt it's a Paypal member who is sending these and whether it is or not is irrelevant.

I e-mail them again to ask why they are apparently doing nothing to try to diminish the effects of this fraud by highlighting it via their website or in their newsletters. I appreciate it may be close to impossible to track the originator of these e-mails, but it would surely not take much to bring it to the attention of concerned Paypal members or users by highlighting it on their website or via their e-mail bulletins, and warning members to ignore such e-mails.

Have had no repsonse from Paypal and there's still nothing about it on the Paypal websites. Appears they don't give a damn!



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