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Credit companies and Paypal phishing...
One of my credit card companies called today, want to send me a credit report and a 'free' 30-day monitoring of my report. I went along with it, until I was transfered to a third-party and they asked for my email.
Now, I don't know about you, but I get enough phishing spam that I automatically discard anything that says "Paypal", "Ebay" or "Bank". I don't *have* a Paypal account, I haven't used Ebay in two years, and I don't do online banking.
It's bad enought that the credit card companies want to sell a service to you that they should be providing as a matter of course (why is fraud protection a *bonus*? banks wouldn't get away with that!), but giving it over to a company that is going to look like a phisher?
PPPLLLLAT!
However, that means I should probably look into getting a credit report and looking it over...
Now, I don't know about you, but I get enough phishing spam that I automatically discard anything that says "Paypal", "Ebay" or "Bank". I don't *have* a Paypal account, I haven't used Ebay in two years, and I don't do online banking.
It's bad enought that the credit card companies want to sell a service to you that they should be providing as a matter of course (why is fraud protection a *bonus*? banks wouldn't get away with that!), but giving it over to a company that is going to look like a phisher?
PPPLLLLAT!
However, that means I should probably look into getting a credit report and looking it over...