By Munir Kotadia
Published: Tuesday 18 November 2003
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Anonymous
Location
UK
Occupation
Consultant
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What disturbed me was that I received the first attempt to steal my identity just three hours after registering with PayPal -- I have now received five, all slightly different.
There must surely be a massive security lapse to have let my e-mail address out so easily.
Naturally, I reported this to both eBay and PayPal -- and like Gareth Davis got an apparaently automated stock response from both.
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