Security breach gives PayPal phish the personal touch
Skype users who use a piece of software dubbed Pamela to manage their online phone accounts should be on the lookout for customized phishing attacks following revelations that one or more user databases containing names and email addresses have been breached. The attack, which took place last week, has already led to one …
'.........."We contacted PayPal last week." So far, they've yet to get a response.'
And they were expecting what exactly? What gives them the right to expect blood from stones? To paraphrase the old Unipart strapline:
Paypal: The answer is "We don't give a shit, now fuck off". What's the question?
Theres nothing new about using real information in phising pages. This has been going on for a long time. Any phisher with half a brain can extract axtra information than the information he already has. And the more information you give the person about themselves the more they will believe you.
And you're going to contact them again this week, and next week, and the week after that.
What makes you think that you're going to get more of an answer than the thousands who have already tried ?
Because you're a company using their service ?
Pah !
You're nothing to PayPal. PayPal doesn't care about you, PayPal doesn't care about anything except creaming a share off of every transaction it can get, on both sides.
And if you complain, you'll just get your account frozen.
That is the PayPal way of doing business and handling complaints.
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