PayPal eases turbocharging financial burden
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For those of you who don't know how DNS (the internet naming system) works, it's like this.
Paypal.com is a root-level domain. When you type that in, your computer goes out to a Domain Name Server, which is like a huge lookup table, like an automatic phone book. The DNS translates the name into an IP address. Then your computer goes out and contacts whatever computer is at the other end of that IP address.
Something.Paypal.com is a specific computer or service within the PayPal domain. So it'll probably wind up in the same general range of IP addresses as the root-level, though not necessarily.
Now, by comparison, paypal.promotionexpert.com is a totally different animal. The root domain here is promotionexpert.com, and paypal.promotionexpert.com is a service running within that domain. The important part here is that promotionexpert.com is owned by a company other than PayPal. You can easily tell this by using the NetworkSolutions WHOIS search client. (Network Solutions is the firm which actually manages the Internet Naming and Numbering System under contract to the US Covernment)
Even more interesting, I get different ownership results for promotionexpert.com than I do for 209.208.189.123, which is what paypal.promotionexpert.com resolves to when I ping it. NetworkSolutions doesn't even recognize the name paypal.promotionexpert.com, which is another red flag.
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promotionexpert.com is rebate management company that is managing the promotion for paypal (ebay). They do this service for tons of businesses. It's just like when you mail in a rebate for a place like circuitcity.com - it doesn't go to circuitycity, it goes to a place somewhere else with an address like "circuitcity.com rebate #1567, young america, MN" etc. OR onrebate.com manages all the online rebates for tigerdirect. I used a similar promotion during the holidays from them for using paypal and got a $20 rebate "attributed" to my paypal account.
here's the one I used: http://www.phishtank.com/phish_detai...phish_id=42482
phishtank isn't a bad way to "size up" offers like this
here's the one I used: http://www.phishtank.com/phish_detai...phish_id=42482
phishtank isn't a bad way to "size up" offers like this
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Please good and trustworthy sir, may I enlist your most generous and confidential assistance in this matter, for which you will be given 10% of all monies exchanged.
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I am not with fine company promotionexpert, but rather am employed by Free Bank of Nigeria. I have come into information most secret about accounts belonging to exiled leader, and require the assistance of a European or American citizen to move these abandoned monies.
Please good and trustworthy sir, may I enlist your most generous and confidential assistance in this matter, for which you will be given 10% of all monies exchanged.
Please good and trustworthy sir, may I enlist your most generous and confidential assistance in this matter, for which you will be given 10% of all monies exchanged.
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Here, I just googled it, and I think this was the one: http://www.siliconvalleysleuth.com/2...he_powerb.html
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you are too hard to track down- always embarking on interstate travel
This is the second time promotionexpert paypal promotions have paid me. 2 for 2 - 100% success. Paypal has a fraud alert form on their site and will confirm any promotions. - rob
This is the second time promotionexpert paypal promotions have paid me. 2 for 2 - 100% success. Paypal has a fraud alert form on their site and will confirm any promotions. - rob