[SpamCop-List] Re: Phishing for PayPals - Shutting down Yahoo/Geocities sites

[Cat]

Spam Reporter wrote:

> Many did not know who I was. I used their paypal password as the first 
> thing that they saw in the subject line. I let them know what had 
> happened and that I was in no way connected to Paypal. Yes I sent out a 
> lot of unsolicitated email. But wouldn't you want to be informed if your 
> information had been compromised like this? At least I was doing 
> something constructive. 

For all they knew, you could have been the scammer himself pretending to 
be some hero for informing them that their information was compromised. 
If some stranger e-mails me with my personal account information from 
anywhere, I WILL report that as unsolicited e-mail. Like I said before, 
it wasn't your place to inform them. You should have contacted PayPal 
and let them notify their users.

> I'm not bitching about the yank. I do understand 
> it. Just wondering if there's a way to fix it.

You should have thought about that before you sent unsolicited e-mail to 
people as a random stranger in possession of their personal information.