Looks like a great resource. Maybe someday it will be considered good
practice to include links at major portals such as ISP start pages etc. for
reporting scams. Much the same way as trash bins are available in public
spaces.
Ok, I'm phinished now ...

Tom Bannister wrote:

Report it as you would report any other crime: to your local police. These
things are very common these days (I get 10-15 scam or phishing mails each
day) and the police should know what to do next. In most countries there
are special police departments or task forces for cyber crime.
But don't expect too much from your report. It will be just a drop in the
ocean. The police won't call back a month later and tell you 'Because of
your report we just busted an international crime syndicate'.

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Tom Bannister wrote:
I usually just forward it to abuse@paypal.com - assuming my spam filter
lets it through.

There are probably hundreds of thousands of people doing this. As long
as people respond to them, this will continue to happen.

I don't know about you, but I don't have the time to worry about them...

Benjamin Niemann wrote:
LOL

That is truly an exercise in futility.

Tony <tony23@dslextreme.WHATISTHIS.com> wrote in news:122ge8a95dhhp10
@corp.supernews.com:

hahahaha. Yeah! The cops around here would say "So, did you actually lose
any money, or was it just someone sending you an e-mail? Oh, you didn't
actually give them your account information? Well, good job. Looks like you
don't need us. We'll go fight some real crime, now."

I mean, you can't charge someone with assault if they only give you dirty
looks and call you a motherf&*ker, you know?



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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:13:03 -0800, Tony wrote:

I'd been contacted by Paypal over a month or so ago regarding all this.
They advised me to forward such spam (phishing) to
Spoof AT Paypal DOT com

It's at their site as well here:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr...curity-outside

Interestingly enough, I had begun doing as they requested and thereafter my
phishing spam just didn't increase but it tripled and quadrupled. So go
figure.

Right. I'm now instituting further filters but it all gets so very tiring
and hard to carry out considering how authentic these emails are.

I myself am at wits end and also tired without the time. So, I'll just try
as I might to ignore it all.

'best regards,

Who Turned Off The Lights? wrote:
That's because it's all a PayPal plot to get you to give up reporting the
phishing attacks. Once they don't get any more reports they can launch their
*real* attack to take over the world!

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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:50:24 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

Dang, Shoulda' known they were up to no good again!

Here's recent evidence of the brilliant minds at work over at PayPal/Ebay:

PayPal Security Flaw gave away members' names
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsSt...cat=Busi ness

Take special note of the second paragraph.

In article <4eid666206c8.ti3ct4445d0k.dlg@40tude.net>,
Who Turned Off The Lights? <Lights@light0987654321.com> wrote:


My email client shows me phishing addresses. Don't respond to email that
you didn't initiate, unless it's from someone you know. It's all junk. I
trash fifty emails without reading to every one I read. The ones I read
are from friends or from commercial entities that I contacted.
SpamAssassin on the server takes care of myriads in my case.
Spam, worm, virus, other junk, of interest, in that order IMO.

leo

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