Robert Weiner

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Lame spams of the day: Fake Amazon and PayPal receipts

Robert Weiner

4) One of the PayPal receipts was poorly formatted, but the spammers wised up and fixed that quickly. PayPal [service@paypal.com]. PayPal [noreply@paypal.com]. Here's one of the PayPal spams: Dec 5, 2012 07:03:40 EST. Transaction ID: FWASD05E081JTT6G1. PayPal Email ID PC873. paypal email id p{symbol}{digit}.

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Lame spams of the day: eBay and Paypal transfers

Robert Weiner

Your Ebay confirmation of your transaction through Paypal. The subjects and first lines of the messages were: Paypal transfer to your bank account initiated. We are transferring funds from Your Paypal account to your bank account. We are moving funds from Your Paypal account to your bank account. Payment total 924,867.68

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Lame spam of the day: Warning PayPal Account Placed on hold

Robert Weiner

Fake PayPal notices are common as dirt, but this one stands out for its lameness. It does have some design elements (small PayPal logo, blue font, borders) -- it's the text that's lame -- empty merge fields, typos, random capitalization. There's even a typo in the fake From address (PayPal with two L's). Refards, PayPal.

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NY Times says text donations system is flawed

Robert Weiner

There will be more ways to give via cell, like PayPal for Mobile and XIPWIRE. If you have an urgent call to action, a way of reaching a mass audience, and don’t mind not being able to identify, steward, or resolicit most of the donors who give via text, mobile giving can definitely be effective. I do expect this to change over time.

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