[SC-Help] Paypal/Ebay reporting error (deputies?)

[David Butler]

You appear confused on how this works.

I report a phishing SPAM. The source of the spam gets reported and listed.
The phishing link gets reported SOLELY to the site of the phishing host and
to whomever is being phished, in this case Paypal (or incorrectly, IMNSHO to
Ebay). There is no reportage to blocking lists and such from links that are
reported. This probably is in the FAQ pages somewhere. Block list info ONLY
comes from reporting the SOURCE of the spam, NOT the links.

The two kinds of reportage are totally separate. This has been discussed a
few times if you look up the archives...

Make sense?

Regards,

David


"Spam Hater" <dkona7b02 at sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.132.1113835971.4572.spamcop-help at news.spamcop.net...
> Right, so why are you using SpamCop to report the phishing attempt to
> PayPal???  SpamCop is for reporting SPAM!!  While a side effect of
> reporting will be that PayPal gets notified, another side effect is that
the
> PayPal site gets listed in the statistics department and who knows what
> blocklists are using that info to do bad things?  The PayPal site is an
> innocent bystander in this context and should be treated as such, in my
> opinion...
>
> At 02:45 PM 4/17/2005 -0400, David Butler typed:
>
> >Yes, I am well aware Ebay owns Paypal.
> >
> >This was for a Paypal Phishing spam. As I pointed out, Paypal has their
own
> >reporting email addresses separate from Ebay. They were being reported
> >correctly until about a week ago...
> >
> >David
> >
> >
> >"Spam Hater"  wrote
> >> Ummmm, eBay *owns* PayPal!!  The LART targets seem appropriate
> >> to me. What doesn't seem appropriate is the LART itself.  What was the
> >> context in which the PayPal URL was included in the SPAM?  Are you
> >> trying to notify PayPal about a phishing attempt or are you claiming
that
> >> they are SPAMvertising their website???  I don't think SpamCop is the
> >> right tool for phishing LARTs...  I send those separately and uncheck
> >> the URL reporting for them.
> >>
> >> At 10:07 AM 4/15/2005 -0400, David Butler typed:
> >>
> >> >After months of correctly parsing Paypal spam to it's own reporting
email
> >> >addresses, the Spamcop engine is suddenly parsing it back to the Ebay
> >> >parent: