Ralph Cohen schrieb:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:28:49 -0000, uvcceet wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>>In fact they are processed after the initial robotic response.  I
>>>religiously report these and often get followup messages
>>>
>>
>>In a million years, no way :-) They would be getting thousands of
>>these a day, and do we really think anyone is reading them? Thousands
>>a day? No. I reckon they might grab one a day, maybe, and reply, but
>>that means you ought to be buying lottery tickets if you are 'often'
>>getting followup messages beyond something robotic. 
>>
> 
> 
> It would be a simple matter for Paypal/Ebay to set up a filter for each
> new version of a spoofed message it receives and ignore the thousands
> of copies.  That would certainly make the workload manageable.    I use
> an email filter action that automatically forwards these spoofed emails
> to spoof{at}paypal.com or spoof{at}ebay.com and then dumps the original in
> the trash.  I have also received a second follow-up message from Paypal
> in the past.  Paypal/Ebay have an important stake in making sure that
> people feel comfortable and secure using their services.

Impossible mission because the whole message is faked. The computer 
the message goes out from has nothing to do with paypal/ebay/any bank. 
So the only who would able to filter that would be YOUR ISP.

Learn to read headers of email to understund that neither of 
paypal/ebay/... owns the computer and they are clearly NOT sending out 
such kind of misinformation.

It is a virus designed to fish for bank account data to steal money. 
Yeah, it is easy for viri to use YOUR email address to send out 
millions of spam mails. It is YOU who then receives the bounces and 
complains. It is easy to fake links to WEB pages to send you to sites 
you would never visit.

All that is used from crminals to steal and spam around. When you have 
learned to read header files before you clicks on attachements or 
links AND avoids to read mails written in HTML then you would be sure 
not to fall into such traps. You can even setup mozilla to show only 
plain text. No attachement and no link will be excecuted then. You 
would switch off JavaScript and Java whenever you starts to read mail 
to be sure that no virus gets started even when ODINs wind32 driver is 
active.

Don't whine about paypal/ebay/..., read the header of the crap, 
analyse it to find out who has really sened it (understunding the 
received lines and how they can be faked and whan can't  get faked is 
the only possibility to see who is sending the crap. Learn to use 
whois to find out the ISP of the sender and send a mail to 
abuse{at}that.isp containing the whole mail, including the complete 
header. Don't write in any way to the sender itself. It will be either 
a spammer that waits to know your address to buy it to other spammer 
or it is an infected Windows PC. And its owner is clearly too dumb to 
hold his PC free of viri and worms.

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