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Watch out for your Paypal Account

I'm posting this here since it seems the most appropriate place; hopefully the majority of Agon members and guests will see...

I just got an email that was placed in the "Junk" folder. Good thing. It was a bogus Paypal email. Attempted to get me to send personal information on my account.

I called paypal and they said:
1. They will always address you by name, never in general terms.
2. They never ask for personal info/passwords etc.

These emails may look pretty authentic but be forewarned!

I was told to send all suspicious emails to the junk folder where the attatchments are disabled and they cannot hurt your computer.

A lot of this was news to me - thankfully I was unharmed by it. Just sharing so we can enjoy our hobby without the scum of the world causing us grief!

Blessings,
Doug Schroeder
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restock
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Timruh, it is not a good idea to answer any spam or fishing emails: You only
verify that they sent their email to a valid email address. This only results in
many more unwanted emails, since they can sell your email address to
someone else.

The only, maybe satisfying, counteraction is to sign up the fishing email
address/spammer address to a mailing list like freeipod.com. That way THEIR
server will be flooded :-).

Good luck and hopefully this will help to keep these unwanted emails out.
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