[Phishing/Spam] Moderators: a bit more careful please (was: Security Update Of Your Account)

[Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>]

Moderators,
please be a bit more careful. This seems to be a phishing attempt. Also,
on fop-user there's that annoying "Webmaster at alacuisine dot net" that
continues to get through. I volunteer to act as additional moderator if
desired.

On 14.12.2004 09:06:19 PayPal Support. wrote:
> Dear valued PayPal® member.....<rest snipped/>


Jeremias Maerki

Re: [Phishing/Spam] Moderators: a bit more careful please

[Christian Geisert <ch...@isu-gmbh.de>]

Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> Hmm, sorry, I didn't take into account that this address could be
> properly subscribed. I wonder how they did this because I don't think
> PayPal would use such an address to monitor our mailing lists. Very

Yes, that's a bit scary but IIRC ezmlm has an option to subscribe
under a different email adress. I'll bring this up on infrastructure@.

And I just noticed that support@paypal.com and update@paypal.com are
subscribed too (unsubsribing them now ..)

Christian

Re: [Phishing/Spam] Moderators: a bit more careful please

[Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>]

Hmm, sorry, I didn't take into account that this address could be
properly subscribed. I wonder how they did this because I don't think
PayPal would use such an address to monitor our mailing lists. Very
strange. I don't think it makes sense to moderate all messages.

Thanks for unsubscribing the other guy. And I'll see to it that I get
added as moderator.

On 14.12.2004 12:18:53 Christian Geisert wrote:
> Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> > Moderators,
> > please be a bit more careful. This seems to be a phishing attempt. Also,
> 
> Hey, I'm innocent ;-|
> service@paypal.com was subscribed to fop-dev (unsubscribed now) so there
> wasn't much I could have done as a moderator.
> The same mail for fop-user ended up as moderation message in my junk folder.
> 
> To prevent this in future we could change to subscription moderation or
> moderate all messages (doh).
> 
> > on fop-user there's that annoying "Webmaster at alacuisine dot net" that
> 
> Unsubscribed.
> 
> > continues to get through. I volunteer to act as additional moderator if
> > desired.
> 
> Another moderator is always good thing.


Jeremias Maerki

Re: [Phishing/Spam] Moderators: a bit more careful please

[Christian Geisert <ch...@isu-gmbh.de>]

Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> Moderators,
> please be a bit more careful. This seems to be a phishing attempt. Also,

Hey, I'm innocent ;-|
service@paypal.com was subscribed to fop-dev (unsubscribed now) so there
wasn't much I could have done as a moderator.
The same mail for fop-user ended up as moderation message in my junk folder.

To prevent this in future we could change to subscription moderation or
moderate all messages (doh).

> on fop-user there's that annoying "Webmaster at alacuisine dot net" that

Unsubscribed.

> continues to get through. I volunteer to act as additional moderator if
> desired.

Another moderator is always good thing.

-- 
Christian