Fighting fraud by baiting phishers

Hi. Thank you for the website.: I get e-mails claiming that I've added laptopseller (at) yahoo.com as a new e-mail address to my PayPal contacts list and to me, I don't think I did that. I never gotten any e-mails like this claiming to be from PayPal and I've just deleted it right away. Now that you've posted the website, I've stored the website in Favorites for future visits when I get those e-mails. I'm glad that I didn't click in links, which may lead me to phishing website, so I just log into PayPal and visit to the page in question; like I said, I don't see where my contact list are located at and I don't see any "laptopseller (at) yahoo.com" in my account... This proves that the e-mail I got is fake.

Please note: The use of (at) is necessary instead of @ to prevent HTML from turning it into an e-mail address and make spider bots harder to find an e-mail address to spam in someone's inbox.; Posted by: Grayson Peddie Posted on: 03/31/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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