*nonchalant whistling*

Away? me? never.
Anyway, something exciting to write about. I got some spam. Actually, I get lots of spam, but this particular bit caught my eye. It's a phishing attempt to get the details for my nonexistent PayPal account. Here's the text:

Dear valued PayPalr member:

Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the paypal
account we have issued this warning message.

It has come to our attention that your PayPalr account information needs to be
updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes
out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into
any future problems with the online service.


However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before within 24 hours

Once you have updated your account records your paypal account
service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.

To update your PayPalr records click on the following link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

Thank You.
PayPalr UPDATE TEAM

The interesting thing that first leaped out at me was the fact that whoever wrote it couldn't spell 'PayPal' for toffee (except in the message subject). The second thing was that it referred to PayPal customers as 'members' and the third thing was the fact that it described PayPal members as 'valued'. That was the dead giveaway - PayPal doesn't value its customers, it makes them sign terms of service which allow it to change the terms of service unilaterally and assume agreement and allows them to 'fine' their customers by draining their bank accounts if it doesn't like what they use the service for.
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