Comment PayPal? What about the parent company, eBay? (Score 2, Informative) 222
The spam and phishing from PayPal is insignificant compared to the crap I get through eBay should I try to auction or sell off an old computer system. (Next to charity donation, it's the best recycling system I have available) The last 3 auctions I did - it took me 6 weeks to get rid of a Tablet PC because the first auction was terminated by a Nigerian trying to defraud me, the 2nd derailed because of the first's premature termination, and the third because of buyer's reluctance to look at something that had been up for auction twice before. The laptop that followed was sniped by another Nigerian fraudster.
During the whole process, I probably received on the order of 12 'messages' about my auctions by spammers. 12 spams is pretty low, except that I have to delete them out of my email, delete them from the item's message queue, and then last delete them from the eBay "My Messages" inbox as well. If I have to delete spam from 3 different locations, and there's no simple way of informing eBay that a message is spam, they're obviously complicit, incompetent or they honestly don't give a damn.
