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Originally Posted by Padawan
Hi everyone
Just thought I would mention that I only registered here about 10 minutes ago and I received the paypal spoof email so probably not anything to do with this site IMHO.
Incidentally, I receive upwards of 20 spoof paypal messages PER DAY, along with similar for all sorts of US banks and other institutions I have never heard of let alone got an account with.
Leads me to believe some script kiddie is just emailing to a whole host of randomly generated email addresses in the hope someone will be caught off guard and give them access to their accounts.... and I know a few who have !
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That message and its variants are being sent out every day by the million.
The point is that myself and several other people used a unique address here, which received that particular mail (probably in the same mailshot).
It's probably not a dictionary attack either. I have my own domain that has at the moment about 20 live address's in total, it's not cost effective to spam a small domain using that method. gmail, hotmail, ntlworld yes. joebloggs.com, no!