Today I’ve been inundated with phishers. A phisher is a particular kind of spammer–not<\/i> a follower of that college favorite band, Phish, a band that I’m not even sure still tours–one that wants their target to give up all sorts of personal information like credit card numbers and the like.<\/p>\n
Today, I keep getting messages from PayPal asking me to reactivate my account.<\/p>\n
There’s an obvious problem. The e-mail address I’m receiving these messages on? Not the e-mail address I have on file with PayPal.<\/p>\n
That the message itself–and the reasons for needing to reactivate my PayPal account–is completely<\/i> bogus (and impossible to check for on their end) is beside the point.<\/p>\n
So, I keep deleting these messages. As if I had nothing better to do that wonder about spammers. :\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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