Spamming Someone from PayPal
Troy Hunt has identified a new spam vector. PayPal allows someone to send someone else a $0 invoice. The spam is in the notes field. But it’s a legitimate e-mail from PayPal, so it evades many of the traditional spam filters.
Presumably it doesn’t cost anything to send a $0 invoice via PayPal. Hopefully, the company will close this loophole soon.
Mike Scott • January 15, 2016 7:59 AM
Paypal can stop people from sending invoices for $0 with a spam payload in the text field, because there’s no legitimate use for a $0 invoice. But it’s harder to see how they would stop people from sending invoices for $1 with a spam payload in the text field.