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PayPal Asks E-mail Services to Block Messages
roscoetoon writes ""PayPal, the Internet-based money transfer system owned by eBay, is trying to persuade e-mail providers to block messages that lack digital signatures, which are aimed at cutting down on phishing scams, a company attorney said Tuesday.So far, no agreements have been reached,..." "...PayPal is using several technologies to digitally sign its e-mails now, including DomainKeys, Sullivan said. DomainKeys, a technology developed by Yahoo Inc., enables verification of the sender and integrity of the message that's sent." "...An agreement with, for example, Google for its Gmail service could potentially stop spam messages that look legitimate and bypass spam filters.""
My bank sends a couple types of emails. One is a "A statement for your account ending in XXXX has been posted."
Another is "We have sent you a secure message. Log into your account to see it."
The emails are only text, and they never have a link to the bank's website. The two sentences I have quoted above are pretty much the entire contents of the emails.
The bank has trained me that if they have something to tell me, I should go to the site on my own and log into my account like I would for anything else. No HML mail, no links that could possibly be misleading, nothing.