CHGPA Renewal for 2007

[dbodner]

It's membership time for the 2007 flying season. Membership is still a mere $40. That's the same price for as long as I can remember.

And for that price, the club is able to pay for site insurance and buy annual holiday gifts to let our landowners know we appreciate them. It's doubtful free-flight in the mountains could exist were it not for CHGPA. So click the link below and support CHGPA.

http://chgpa.net/renew/index.html

And we encourage you to pay by PayPal. It's the easiest way for you and for us. Thanks a lot and fly safe!

David Bodner
CHGPA Treasurer

[CraginS]

OK.. I went to the web page and renewed using Paypal. Then I got three (count them THREE) different "prove you are real" anti-spam mails from laptop, rps, and tiger @ sickinger.net.
Sorry, Ralph, I am not playing that silly ass game in order to renew my CHGPA membership.


David,
I renewed, and paid. Please make sure Ralph gets the necessary info to update the roster. Based on the three mails I received, from his spam filter, he is not gonna see my mail.
You might want to rethink the forward mail rule for
treasurer@chgpa.net


Cragin




[quote="dbodner"]It's membership time for the 2007 flying season. Membership is still a mere $40. That's the same price for as long as I can remember.

And for that price, the club is able to pay for site insurance and buy annual holiday gifts to let our landowners know we appreciate them. It's doubtful free-flight in the mountains could exist were it not for CHGPA. So click the link below and support CHGPA.

http://chgpa.net/renew/index.html

And we encourage you to pay by PayPal. It's the easiest way for you and for us. Thanks a lot and fly safe!

David Bodner
CHGPA Treasurer[/quote]

[Batman]

While you're at it ... how about a roster update before the turn of the century? Or is that really asking too much?

[Flying Lobster]

The only confirmation that matters is the one from Paypal. If you got a confirm (which I did) it means funds went out of your account and into the CHGPA's.

Ralph obviously has one of those Spam e-mail firewalls that requires pre-registration of senders to make it through, and thus his notification of the transaction bounces back through his autoresponder. He should fix that, to be sure.

marc

[bustedwing2]

I wouldn't touch paypal with a 10 ft. pole.Tried to establish an account with them once,read the fine print and decided no.For the last 16 months have been getting messages about funds being transferred fron my bank account etc.,all fraudulent phishers tapped in to paypal.It's a check ot nothing. RichB

[obryandavid]

I use the option in Paypal of paying thru my credit card only. They don't have my bank account at all. I figure I am also getting protection thru my credit card company as well. I've never had any issues and feel OK using Paypal this way (so far).

Dave O

[CraginS]

[quote="bustedwing2"]I wouldn't touch paypal with a 10 ft. pole.Tried to establish an account with them once,read the fine print and decided no.For the last 16 months have been getting messages about funds being transferred fron my bank account etc.,all fraudulent phishers tapped in to paypal.It's a check ot nothing. RichB[/quote]

Rich,
You are right,those e-mails are from, phishers. However,they are in no way tapped into PayPal. The phishers don;t even know whether you have a PayPal account. They send those e-mails to all addresses they can figure out. If a recipient clicks a link in the mail to the phony PayPal page, and enters a user id and password, THEN they know about your account, and use the ID you just gave them to dip into it.
THis phishing technique is used for almost every major online financial account, including PayPal, Bank of America, Citibank, Amazon.com, etc.
You are right to avoid the phishing attacke-mails. However, there is no particular reason to avoid PayPal because of them.
There are other reasons in teh PayPal agreements to not have an account (I have one), but the phishing attacks are not.

Cragin

[deveil]

i also was shadowed by junkmail relating to paypal after once visiting the site(not registered). but i've also noticed that my spam often relates to key words i've used in either email or forum postings. so, in that sense, they're not random and you're not paranoid to think that your visit triggered something. but, if it hadn't been that trigger, they would have just gone back to random.

I wouldn't touch paypal with a 10 ft. pole.Tried to establish an account with them once,read the fine print and decided no.For the last 16 months have been getting messages about funds being transferred fron my bank account etc.,all fraudulent phishers tapped in to paypal.It's a check ot nothing. RichB

Rich,
You are right,those e-mails are from, phishers. However,they are in no way tapped into PayPal. The phishers don;t even know whether you have a PayPal account. They send those e-mails to all addresses they can figure out. If a recipient clicks a link in the mail to the phony PayPal page, and enters a user id and password, THEN they know about your account, and use the ID you just gave them to dip into it.
THis phishing technique is used for almost every major online financial account, including PayPal, Bank of America, Citibank, Amazon.com, etc.
You are right to avoid the phishing attacke-mails. However, there is no particular reason to avoid PayPal because of them.
There are other reasons in teh PayPal agreements to not have an account (I have one), but the phishing attacks are not.

Cragin

[bustedwing2]

After a long ago phone call to paypal(actually talked to a real live person),all paypal related phishes are forwarded to spoof@paypal.com which is their fraud protection/investigation dept.I still won't use them.RichB

[Flying Lobster]

I've used Paypal for many, many years and my experience with them has been good to very good--mostly because I've developed an e-commerce site and it's the cheapest, easiest solution for that. As far as I know, they've never been cracked--but having access to your bank account is a compromise if you want to accept payments. I simply never keep much in the account. They will also settle conflicts with subscribers--so there is some degree of buyer protection. I've actually used this protection and have recieved satisfaction through Paypal's intervention. However, this must be done within 45 days--as I found out after getting screwed by Florida Ridge and did not file a complaint in time after months of getting the run-around from FR.

Online buying is always risky--but this is more a function of the user's awareness and defenses against phishing, spam and other on-line fraud techniques.

marc

[Gene]

Just tried to pay again but it has not posted on my paypal. What do I need to get it right?
Gene