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I haven't got more messages lately, so I'm guessing they managed it already.
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If you can keep your email address off the front page of the internet, I figure that will help reduce spam.
At this point, that's like trying to reduce flooding by not dumping a bucket into the river. There's so much spam out there that your only hope is effective filtering.
It is indeed very difficult to keep ALL your email addresses from being publicly listed, so I use GMail accounts for the ones plastered all over the web, and let GMail handle the spam.
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I mean, it does slightly increase your rate of spam. I have a private email that I only give out to RL people that has never received a spam message.
Wow I love this idea! Can't believe I haven't thought of it
PayPal employee here (and I'm hiring Node.js developers :P ). I actually got two of these messages while I was out for the holiday break. I don't work on the team that handles invoicing; but, I (among others) made them aware of this issue and they are definitely working on a fix. The challenge, of course, is that there are plenty of legitimate reasons for sending $0 invoices and we don't want to artificially make our…
PayPal employee here (and I'm hiring Node.js developers :P ). I actually got two of these messages while I was out for the holiday break. I don't work on the team that handles invoicing; but, I (among others) made them aware of this issue and they are definitely working on a fix. The challenge, of course, is that there are plenty of legitimate reasons for sending $0 invoices and we don't want to artificially make our…
Don't know if you can answer this: Why can I venmo people money instantly and paypal holds my money for days or weeks at a time?
PayPal employee here (and I'm hiring Node.js developers :P ). I actually got two of these messages while I was out for the holiday break. I don't work on the team that handles invoicing; but, I (among others) made them aware of this issue and they are definitely working on a fix. The challenge, of course, is that there are plenty of legitimate reasons for sending $0 invoices and we don't want to artificially make our…
Don't know if you can answer this: Why can I venmo people money instantly and paypal holds my money for days or weeks at a time?
So do not use Venmo for commercial transactions (buying things of Craiglist for example) and do not assume the money transfers immediately.
Also shame on Venmo for misleading their users; they should do a better job of explaining how the transfer actually works.
You can send invoices to people to get paypal to show their name to you and connect names to emails
There isn't much you can do about it, detecting an abuse of an invoicing system and locally blocking it is much preferable to the other potential outcome of not knowing or being able to confirm where the hell did that invoice actually went.