Ready For A Good Laugh
Alexander Harrowell
a.harrowell at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 08:24:01 UTC 2011
On Friday 10 Jun 2011 05:31:44 Michael Painter wrote:
> Jimi Thompson wrote:
> > Now I'm going to go off on you people - What kind of crack are you people
> > smoking?
>
> The same stuff they're smoking over at PayPal.
> Some genius decided to send out E-mails which said:
> "Hello <name removed>,
>
> It looks like you may be using an outdated browser with known security issues.
>
> Help keep your computer and your PayPal account protected by updating your
browser today."
>
> and included a link (different from what was represented).
> Even magaged to fool the folks at spoof at paypal.com
> 11 pages of wtf? at:
> https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Fraud-phishing-and-spoof/New-scam/td-
p/273626
>
PayPal has been doing this for as long as I've been a member. They are terrible
ones for sending out e-mails to teach you to type passwords into the spam.
--
The only thing worse than e-mail disclaimers...is people who send e-mail to
lists complaining about them
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