Gmail Phishing/Beacons - PayPal Link
Morning All,
This has been brought up a couple of times but hoping to clear it up. Summary:
1. I've had several past PayPal accounts (pre-stealth) that have been limited (good year+ ago). Obviously each of these PayPal accounts have an associated email address with them (these are gmail accounts).
2. Discovered stealth and now I have two up and running PP's and all going well.
3. Now I'd like to get all the email addresses of my customers which I had during my pre-stealth times (across about 3 gmail accounts). Just so i can now send them all a group email/updates - basically building a database of all my customers.
4. Problem is. In my pre-stealth days I enabled all images in all of my old email accounts, allowing for any embedded beacons/flash cookies to run rife.
5. Now, using gmails "add new account feature", I have the email account of my stealth PayPal loaded, and also the other old emails. I currently make sure i never open an old pre stealth PayPal email as i'm concious that the email could contain PP beacons associated with my old PP account. Question:
1. Is this an accurate assumption - Ch 1 Basic Stealth would assume yes, obviously. But, critically DO PP KNOW WHEN I AM VIEWING ONE OF THEIR EMAILS IN A GMAIL ACCOUNT IF I HAVE IMAGES ALLOWED?
2. And leading on from this, If so, CAN THEY THEREFORE LINK TWO PP ACCOUNTS JUST FROM PEOPLE VIEWING PP EMAILS IN TWO GMAIL ACCOUNTS FROM THE SAME IP ADDRESS...without even logging into the actual PP site i will add.
Hoping some of the more technical/Mods can shed light on this subtlety re cookies/beacons/flash LSOs/phishing tech.
Thanks for any comments,
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