gotta love the bank spam when you don't even have accounts at these places
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: off topic Paypal question
>I just assume all those emails are fakes weather I have an account or not
> and so far, that's never been a problem. The one time it was real, I just
> tried to log in to my eBay account and they let me know when I logged in
> that it was real and made me change my password. Some day when I have a
> second bank account, I might register one with paypal, but for now, my
> only
> one will never be on there. way too much needless risk. I almost never use
> paypal anyway and when I do I use a credit card which I don't keep on
> file.
> I've been burned way too many times in my life with other things, I trust
> no
> one now, especially people I don't know.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Tinney" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 1:58 PM
> Subject: Re: off topic Paypal question
>
>
>> I've had a PayPal account for over three years and have had absolutely no
>> problem with it and my checking account is registered as a part of my
>> account in addition to one credit card number. I have gotten several
>> spoof
>> emails about my PayPal account, but those were phishing emails that did
>> not
>> come from PayPal. I did forward them to PayPal for follow up in hopes
>> that
>> those Phishing guys might be caught.
>> If your buying something through PayPal, there is no fee, but there are
>> seller's fees.
>> I also want to mention that I've also gotten phishing emails supposedly
>> from
>> EBay and the Philadelphia Credit union. The one from the credit union
>> was
>> really scary. I knew that it was a spoof because I don't have an account
>> there, but they gave a telephone number which was a Lansing Michigan
>> phone
>> number (517) area code, that had me talking to an automated voice male
>> system. If I had held one of their accounts, I might have been suckered
>> in
>> by that one. I did give that phone number to our Michigan State Police.
>> 73
>> Bob, [log in to unmask], K8LR
>> Skype Name: bobtinn
>> Life is GOOD!
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 12:21 PM
>> Subject: Re: [BLIND-HAMS] off topic Paypal question
>>
>>
>> no minimum account balance that I know of, I guess they're safe. The only
>> thing I don't like about them is they require a bank account in order to
>> use
>> them after you spend so much with them through a credit card, it's
>> different
>> every time some one I know signs up, but for me it was after I spend a
>> total
>> of $2000 with them I'll have to register a bank account, my mother it was
>> like $500. I only have 1 bank account and there's no way in you know
>> where,
>> they're getting that info. They used to have a lot of problems in the
>> past
>> with closing out accounts and withholding the money in that account with
>> them, and a few other things you can read about if you search the net,
>> but
>> since Ebay bought them out 2 or 3 years ago, I don't know of anyone who's
>> had any issues but I will never trust them or any other web site with
>> bank
>> account info.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Frederick" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 11:31 AM
>> Subject: Re: off topic Paypal question
>>
>>
>>> Three questions I have always had about pay pal is do you need a minimum
>>> account balance with them? Also, what kind of fees do they charge? How
>>> safe
>>> are they to use?
>>>
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>>> Mark WZ0K
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 5:45 AM
>>> Subject: Re: off topic Paypal question
>>>
>>>
>>>> sorry, I didn't see paypal mentioned in the subject line. they have an
>>>> audio
>>>> link you can listen to the audio to get those characters. I didn't see
>>>> the
>>>> subject line, I seldom watch those in the morning when I'm going
>>>> through
>>>> all
>>>> my morning email.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 8:01 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: off topic Paypal question
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> unfortunately, you don't. the only way that some times works, is if
>>>>> you
>>>>> print out the page and then scan it in to an OCR program and even that
>>>>> isn't
>>>>> 100% useful.
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Harvey" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 2:21 AM
>>>>> Subject: off topic Paypal question
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I know this has been discussed before, but how does a blind person
>>>>>>type
>>>>>>in
>>>>>> the characters in the security box when it says to do so? I have
>>>>>> looked
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> them, but JFW apparently can't find them. 73.
>>>>>> Harvey
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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