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Sunday, July 27, 2003

Trying to trick with a PayPal e-mail -- Comment()
I'm catching up with my e-mail. In my primary e-mail account there were 251 messages, of which 140 were spam automatically recognized by Apple Mail, and about 1/3 of the rest were spam unclassified as spam.

To make my day, I received the following e-mail. I wonder how many fell for it.

Dear PayPal Customer
This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by PayPal to detect inactive customers and non-functioning mailboxes.
The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in the next 3 months.
Please confirm your email address and credit card information by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:
Password:
Full Name:
Credit Card #:
Exp.Date(mm/yyyy):
ATM PIN (For Bank Verification) #:

-- Comment()
5 steps to flagrant bandwidth abuse: "1) Turn on iSight camera 2) Launch QuickTime Broadcaster 3) Send video stream of self to QuickTime Streaming Server in Tokyo 4) Launch QuickTime to view stream at rtsp://stream.joi.ito.com/lizstream.sdp 5) Show results to family on couch [...]" [mamamusings]