posted on February 18, 2001 05:26:00 PM
The chain letter scam has been around for decades and the paypal version of it started the day after paypal opened its doors. If it's still going around, the scammers are fools. Today Paypal requires so much effort to get that $5 referral, you'd be better off taking a minimum wage job. By the way, if Paypal finds one of these chain letters (and sooner of later they usually do) all the folks on the list will have their accounts restricted and the funds possibly taken back.
This has nothing to do with why Paypal itself is messed up. PP is messed up because they chose to lie, chose to do little about preventing fraud, chose to pretend they had a protection plan in place and made many other moves designed to anger their customers. They have yet to even admit they ever made a mistake. The first step in correcting a problem is admitting that there is one.
