Travis posted <address@hidden>, excerpted
below, on Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:17:55 -0700:
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: "Richard Wegner" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>;
> <address@hidden> Sent: Monday, July 11,
> 2005 16:56
> Subject: Re: [Pan-users] PayPal Notification: Upgrade your
> information
>
> > address@hidden wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>
> > DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS PAYPAL E-MAIL. This is an attempt for
> > someone to get into your paypal account and take money from
> > your bank/credit card account.
> >
> >
> This is related to Pan how?
It isn't, except that the phisher/spammer somehow got ahold of the
PAN mailing list address, and spammed the list. (Perhaps your
filters killed the spam so you didn't see the original message?)
It has happened to a couple other lists I'm on as well, a time or
two in the last year. I usually simply ignored it, as I had here,
until this reply.
Note that here, I get the lists as newsgroups, using gmane, so any
such spam stands out like a sore thumb. However, for anyone
getting the lists thru their regular mail account, who don't filter
list messages into a special list folder, it's possible some may
not notice the mail came thru the list, and it could appear to be
legit, which is of course what the phisher is hoping for.
Hopefully, users on this list are intelligent enough to see the
phishing attempt for what it is, but one never knows...)