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I’m still shaking my head at this one: Zoe got mail from PayPal telling her she’d won $50 in their Spring Fling competition, and as near as we can make out it wasn’t a phishing attempt.

Good signs include:

• The link from the mail is to https://www.paypal.com/, not some random IP address;
• IE verified the certificate; and
• Zoe subsequently logged into her PayPal account from a fresh browser and saw the $50.

On the other hand:

• There’s no mention of the competition anywhere on PayPal’s site; and
• There’s no result in Google.

Whilst I’m delighted that Zoe apparently won some cash, I’ve still got an odd itch between the shoulder blades…

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