Dear James Mason,

On 11/26/04 I replied to the email message you sent regarding your PayPal
account.
As part of PayPal's commitment to excellence, I want to make sure I met your
needs in my response.  Would you please take a minute to answer a few questions
to let me know how I did?

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Am I right to delet it? IS it proper, I dont think so.

Don't worry about it, I already took the survey for you.  You may get a weird response from those guys though.  I think I included some stuff about having phone sex with the customer representative and something else about buying weapons from some guy in Armania.  I'm sure it will be entertaining reading for whoever processes the form.  :D

I encourage others to fill it out also.  Be creative!

If it doesn't come from ebay/paypal, and has to do with ebay/paypal, you are right to (and should) delete it. Your personal information and finances are at risk, don't take the chance.

Thats what I thought.

Well done Thing. LOL. Your response made me laugh :P

If I get an email back illpost it for the world too see. What makes me worry is they knew I sent an email to pyapal on that day and they know my name. What else could they know?

Where does it ask for your account?

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** An important note from the survey vendor **

In order to process your survey, we must collect personal information from you
that are protected by worldwide data protection laws. BenchmarkPortal and its
international group of partners are committed to compliance with all laws. We
have taken the necessary steps to ensure that we meet the obligations required
by country-specific legislation and the EU Directive on Personal Data Privacy.
By clicking on the link above you are providing your Authorisation, allowing
us to collect, process,  access, and/or transport your data to a worldwide
website
located in Santa Maria USA. This website will be accessible to selected
BenchmarkPortal
employees worldwide and our client PayPal.

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By there

[quote author=j0k3r link=topic=9705.msg90364#msg90364 date=1101664754]
If it doesn't come from ebay/paypal, and has to do with ebay/paypal, you are right to (and should) delete it. Your personal information and finances are at risk, don't take the chance.
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Even if it DOES appear to come from them you should delete it.  There's always the chance of XSS or spoofed URLs (there's about 50 ways to spoof URLs in Internet Explorer) or something ellse wierd.

And Thing, I love you so much! I laughed my ass off when you said that! :D

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[quote author=Meh link=topic=9705.msg90358#msg90358 date=1101662810]

** An important note from the survey vendor **

In order to process your survey, we must collect personal information from you
that are protected by worldwide data protection laws. BenchmarkPortal and its
international group of partners are committed to compliance with all laws. We
have taken the necessary steps to ensure that we meet the obligations required
by country-specific legislation and the EU Directive on Personal Data Privacy.
By clicking on the link above you are providing your Authorisation, allowing
us to collect, process,  access, and/or transport your data to a worldwide
website
located in Santa Maria USA. This website will be accessible to selected
BenchmarkPortal
employees worldwide and our client PayPal.

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By there
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I didn't see anything in the survey itself that linked the user to his paypal account. ?_?

Perhaps it uses a browser exploit to tail his cookies! :-o

No one has tryed http://www.benchmarkportal.com/ yet? That was the first thing I looked at and I instantly knew it was fake. Paypal and ebay don't subdomain themselves. I encourage everyone to let your imagination SOAR and fill out the survey with fake, distubing, funny, etc information.

Just took the survey and went on about the lack of lesbian DVD's I wasnt offerend and how "One time at band camp my friend stuck a guitar up his ass" :P

You indicated that you do not agree with PayPal’s policy in this matter. To which policy are you referring?

My mail order bride never came to me i was instead shipped a donkey which was dead in the package that ups delivered me

What is it about the policy that you disagree with?

I should either get my deed to my house back or get my mail order bride

What could the representative have done differently to satisfy you with his/her professionalism and knowledge?

He could have sent me to seek help instead he just laughed at me when i told him my story and he then asked me if i visited slashdot.org and i told him i did and then he told me go find some porn