On 12/06/09 09:35, Warp wrote:
>    What I don't understand is: What's the point? What do they need people's
> email accounts for? If they need email accounts for whatever scamming they
> want to do, there are dozens and dozens of free email services out there,
> starting from hotmail and gmail. What do they need people's existing accounts
> for?

	Let's take a step back.

	For a while, most such ones I got were from sites pretending to be 
Paypal. I'm sure you can understand the reason for wanting /that/.

	Now if I get access to someone's email account, chances are somewhere 
in there he'll have emails from places like Paypal that contain the 
username and password.

	It's likely just an indirect way to get to other sites.

	Also, many people use the same username and password. So if they get 
your email's, they'll try it with other services.


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