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

[Mike Easter]

Spam Hater wrote:
> all Spamvertised sites, while
> not listed by SpamCop, do get statistics tallied for them and then
> third parties suck up that info and form their own blocklists.

Correct

> So
> basically, when you report an innocent bystander, which
> www.paypal.com is, you may prevent their legitimate emails from
> getting to their customers in the future, if said customer is relying
> on one of those third party protection programs/lists!

Correct;  altho' the sc-surbl listing is not a potent one, I agree that
the SC report to the provider for paypal/ebay is a report of an IB

> The term itself, innocent bystander, implies that you really
> shouldn't be reporting these URLs.

Correct.

> As I said in my original reply to your message, I think you should be
> sending manual LARTs to PayPal about the phishing attempts and
> leave SpamCop out of the mix.

Actually there are guidelines at phish help sites for how to go about
notifying about phishes, including central phish places.  In fact,
sometimes /only/ the central phish place wants to know, and the phish
entity doesn't want to know/ care/ about the/your spam problem.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin