Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:36:29 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "Laurence Berland" <stuyman@confusion.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: PayPaI Cash Give-Away Message-ID: <00a001c115ae$110ad560$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <15199.51374.425090.470755@guru.mired.org>
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Actually, to be able to accept money on PayPal you either have to supply them with a mailing address they can mail checks to, or a bank account that they can transfer money into. What's going on with this particular gem is fraud, and when you sign up with PayPal you agree that they can do whatever the hell they want to you if they catch you doing anything fraudulent. PayPal will report this back to the bank or credit cards associated with this PayPal account and those organizations will freeze the accounts. Since it takes a couple days for a PayPal fund transfer to take place, and more for the funds to free up in the bank so you can get them out with an ATM card, and this spam just came out, it's unlikely that the criminal will be able to get any money out of his account that comes in from PayPal. Most likely he set up a very elaborate deception with ficticious names and ID and addresses, but some of them are stupid enough to use their real addresses. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Meyer >Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:37 AM >To: Laurence Berland >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: PayPaI Cash Give-Away > > >Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> types: >> abuse@paypal.com has been alerted... > >Not that that will do anything to help people who actually send this >bozo the money. > > <mike > >> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Matthew Hunt wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:51:57PM -0800, Friend wrote: >> > >> > > Congradulations You were chosen from over 30,000 contestants for our >> > > $500.00 cash give-away from PayPaI. If you are already a >member simply click >> > > the link below to Accept the Cash Give-Away. Even if you are >not a PayPaI member >> > > you can sign-up for Free, and still accept the $500.00 Cash >Give-Away today! >> > >> > It looks to me like this link goes to a page where you can send $50.00 >> > to a_bum@hotmail.com. I guess the guy thinks a few people will >just blindly >> > enter their CC information and send him $50, thinking they're getting >> > $500. >> > >> > -- >> > Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon. >> > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * >> > >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > >> >> Laurence Berland >> http://www.isp.northwestern.edu >> >-- >Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ >Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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