You have to be very careful these days, with all the spoof eBay and Paypal emails. Some of them are very easy to spot while the remaining are getting very clever. This morning, I've received two emails which claim to be from Paypal both with the title PayPal - Limited Account Access Details. Fortunately I'm pretty immune to these emails, & don't really take anything in. I'm sure that most regular users are also but Paypal & eBay have to do a better job of informing new users of the situation.

Back to the topic on hand, I checked my emails the other evening & was actually shocked at the tactics that a "phlisher" had gone to. It was the most genuine attempt ever, complete with the Paypal logo, text in the correct format & font & for once they've even done some research and got hold of my name.
Excellent, I love seeing someone use their initiative I thought. A little scary how they've got hold of my name but everyone knows these phishers just buy lists of email addresses associated with online accounts so it was only a matter of time before they purchased a few more details and used a mail-merge feature.

I was confident this was a spoof, although it had all the hallmarks of a genuine email from Paypal the subject was "Fancy A Flutter On Paypal?"

And I know for a fact that Paypals own Acceptable User Policy specifically states that you can not use Paypal to Fund Gambling. No Excuses, No Exceptions, Paypal Accounts have been frozen for the likes of selling Gambling eBooks, But now paypal seems to have changed the rules to suit themselves.

Sure enough I clicked on the email links and it seems that you can now use Paypal to fund gambling when using BetFair. However, on there site the AUP still remains unchanged.

Are paypal violating their own AUP? To me it seems very hypercritical of them to suddenly start promoting this, without changing the terms and conditions of use for the rest of us.

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