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Has PayPal just not tried to fix anything or add features other than a CSS refresh in, like, ever?
They acquired Venmo, which was pretty big for adding users to their ecosystem. They've kept it pretty quiet and have not tried to link the brands together, which probably says something about the current state of Paypal's brand.
On one hand I hate spammers and their ilk. On the other hand, I have to congratulate them on finding a neat hack around spam filters which is technically not breaking false claimant laws . The simple fix is to disable $0.00 invoices as any actual invoice for services not rendered is fraud.
For accounts which keep an average balance > $minimum you could wave the $10 hold and just confiscate $10 every time someone reported their $0 invoice as spam.
> @AskPayPal: I recommend deleting that tweet, it has your personal info > @troyhunt: It has my email address – I get email by sharing it with people who might want to send me email! This is golden. Hilariously incompetent tech support trying to make someone delete the tweet complaining about their spam.
> @AskPayPal: I recommend deleting that tweet, it has your personal info > @troyhunt: It has my email address – I get email by sharing it with people who might want to send me email! This is golden. Hilariously incompetent tech support trying to make someone delete the tweet complaining about their spam.
It's probably earnest. An amazingly large number of people think that making your personal e-mail address public is somehow unwise.
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It's probably earnest. An amazingly large number of people think that making your personal e-mail address public is somehow unwise.
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.
> @AskPayPal: I recommend deleting that tweet, it has your personal info > @troyhunt: It has my email address – I get email by sharing it with people who might want to send me email! This is golden. Hilariously incompetent tech support trying to make someone delete the tweet complaining about their spam.
> @AskPayPal: I recommend deleting that tweet, it has your personal info > @troyhunt: It has my email address – I get email by sharing it with people who might want to send me email! This is golden. Hilariously incompetent tech support trying to make someone delete the tweet complaining about their spam.
It's probably earnest. An amazingly large number of people think that making your personal e-mail address public is somehow unwise.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's probably earnest. An amazingly large number of people think that making your personal e-mail address public is somehow unwise.
If you can keep your email address off the front page of the internet, I figure that will help reduce spam.
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 product worse for our many legitimate customers by going too far in trying to stop this spam.
> @AskPayPal: I recommend deleting that tweet, it has your personal info > @troyhunt: It has my email address – I get email by sharing it with people who might want to send me email! This is golden. Hilariously incompetent tech support trying to make someone delete the tweet complaining about their spam.
It's similar to advice for "forgot password" forms not to acknowledge whether or not an email address or username actually exists--simply tell the user an email was sent for that account regardless.