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PayPal Phishing

Monday, May 19, 2008 Comments

I recently got a spoofed email attempting to phish my PayPal account details. I think of myself as pretty adept at identifying phishing emails but this one came at just the right time. This email came from PayPal’s abuse department, indicating that there was some recent suspicious activity on my account and provided a link where I could log in and presumably verify my information.

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OMG, I Won the Euromillones Spanish Lottery! (SCAM)

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 Comments (128)

I’ve Hit the Jackpot

I’m announcing my retirement - it’s only $715,950 but I think I can stretch that and bum around for a decade. Okay, I’m kidding. The other day I got a piece of mail (direct mail, NOT email) that came from Spain (I’m not sure, but definitely somewhere in Europe). There’s no return address and I thought… that’s weird, I don’t know anyone in Europe.

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