Comments | jlh: Paypal fraudulent email!

jlh

Paypal fraudulent email!

May 09, 2005 23:17

I just got a really, really good spoof email "from" PayPal tonight. The address was right (service@paypal.com) but the email seemed a little off--mostly, the weird code in the header, and the way it kept saying "PayPal," even when a comma was not called for, and that it was telling me about some weird activity on my account that supposedly ( Read more... )

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hermorrine May 10 2005, 03:18:25 UTC

Medium was very creepy. But good. One of my favorite things about this show is how authentic Allison and Joe's marriage seems - they have good times and they get mad at each other. But likely I am just weird.

jlh May 10 2005, 03:31:28 UTC

No, actually, that's no only a think I also really love about the show, but when I read a review of it in EW it was something the critic particularly pointed out, the very mundane reality of their marriage and the way her husband deals with her powers thing as being awesome and a good counterpoint to the psychic story.

But I really loved the ending.

hermorrine May 10 2005, 03:47:39 UTC

*nods* I also compare it to a lot of the other marriages you see on TV - either they're ridiculously overdramatized or they're perfect or they just don't seem real. Of course, seeing as Allison DuBois is a real person, that may have something to do with it...

The ending was really good, and I don't know about you, but I was impressed with both that teenage actress and the doctor in the mental hospital - they had to do a bit of stretching in their roles.

heinous_bitca May 10 2005, 13:14:53 UTC

It's one of the reasons I love this show, too. Though I only watched the first 20 minutes of Medium (it's on the DVR, waiting for me to watch the rest of it). The marriage is SUCH a "true" marriage. They do really love each other, and are in love with each other, but they piss the hell out of each other regularly, too.

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jlh May 10 2005, 03:29:38 UTC

Yes, and I'm sorry you were scared. I've never known this show to be so gory. In the end the doctor turned out to be as much a victim as the girl that was on the table if that eases your mind at all.

zorb May 10 2005, 04:07:58 UTC

I've gotten a couple of fraudulent "PayPal" emails. Of course, not actually having a PayPal account, I was able to identify them as fake rather quickly. *g*

cadey May 10 2005, 11:05:38 UTC

I seem to get PayPal spoofs about once every month or so. Most of them do look very good, very authentic, but there's just a few things that don't ever jibe about them. Once I see the 'PayPal' in my inbox, I just roll my eyes now.

Of course, Firefox has this extention that detects spoof sites and warns you about them.