PayPal and therefore eBay are the top targets for spam and phishing emails (with the possible exceptions of the big banks). For those that get these emails claiming to be from PayPal or eBay, never click on the links on them, just go to the website and login from there. Anyway, back to the point.
PayPal is trying to come to an arrangement with some of the major email providers so that any emails that appear to come from PayPal will only make it into peoples inboxes if they are digitally signed by PayPal. So far they haven’t made much headway but it’s still early days but I think PayPal should be applauded for there efforts.
The other big companies out there should take note and join the fight on spam by following PayPal’s lead. If they can eliminate this source of spam then the ISPs and email providers can concentrate on removing the other sources of spam from our inboxes.
Just a thought, bet it never happens